Bestsellers
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- By Kindle Customer on 04-26-22
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times.
By: Scott Anderson
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Washington's Spies
- The Story of America's First Spy Ring
- By: Alexander Rose
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.....
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Kinda boring
- By Randall on 07-10-19
By: Alexander Rose
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A. Denis
- Narrated by: Luis Vega
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
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Eye opening
- By pasha d green on 07-20-25
By: Nelson A. Denis
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
- By: Bill O'Reilly, David Fisher
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders....
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Couldn't stop listening!
- By Erin on 08-05-16
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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On Wings of Eagles
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Marcia Hyde, Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands....
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
- By Tammy on 06-19-08
By: Ken Follett
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- By Kindle Customer on 04-26-22
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times.
By: Scott Anderson
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Washington's Spies
- The Story of America's First Spy Ring
- By: Alexander Rose
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.....
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Kinda boring
- By Randall on 07-10-19
By: Alexander Rose
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A. Denis
- Narrated by: Luis Vega
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
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Eye opening
- By pasha d green on 07-20-25
By: Nelson A. Denis
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
- By: Bill O'Reilly, David Fisher
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders....
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Couldn't stop listening!
- By Erin on 08-05-16
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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On Wings of Eagles
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Marcia Hyde, Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands....
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
- By Tammy on 06-19-08
By: Ken Follett
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....
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Audio Skips!!
- By Joseph M. Arnold on 07-02-15
By: Simon Schama
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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Excellent content, terrible reading
- By Patricio Herbst on 06-14-25
By: Robert Darnton
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Rob Heaps
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin....
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Not Enough Context
- By Amazon Customer on 02-14-23
By: Antony Beevor
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Christopher Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....
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Like the revolutions, it got off to a good start
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-23
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A People’s Tragedy
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
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It would be 5 stars
- By Michael Polevoy on 01-31-19
By: Orlando Figes
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The Quartet
- Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew....
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bias is not good history
- By Craig on 01-24-18
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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History of the Russian Revolution
- By: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed....
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One of the Greatest Works of History Ever Written
- By Sophie on 12-01-22
By: Leon Trotsky
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A Rage for Order
- The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
- By: Robert Worth
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Robert Worth
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath....
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What a mess!
- By Art Guzman on 01-19-17
By: Robert Worth
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Magna Carta
- The Birth of Liberty
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....
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Complicated period of history made accessible
- By NH on 12-09-15
By: Dan Jones
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- By Peter Stephens on 11-16-16
By: Alan Taylor
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The French Revolution
- From Enlightenment to Tyranny
- By: Ian Davidson
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....
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superficial; trite
- By David Hart on 04-25-19
By: Ian Davidson
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it....
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- By Buretto on 10-21-21
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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Rebellion
- The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 19 hrs
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In Rebellion, Ackroyd gives his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king James VI, to flight and exile of his grandson James II....
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Good but not great
- By Ryan on 01-21-15
By: Peter Ackroyd
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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The 20th Century's New Weird History
- By Darwin8u on 08-12-17
By: China Mieville
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This Fierce People
- The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
- By: Alan Pell Crawford
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The battles that form the backbone of the story put forth of American independence—at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth, while crucial, did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown. It was in the three-plus years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won....
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Ghastly
- By Wayne on 09-09-24
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The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as "the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written," The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788....
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I must for everyone who slept through history class
- By Claire Bassett on 06-23-19
By: Alexander Hamilton, and others
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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....
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WWI from a different perspective
- By Michael L Krogh on 11-09-15
By: Sean McMeekin
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The First and Last King of Haiti
- The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
- By: Marlene L. Daut
- Narrated by: Don Elivert
- Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
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learned a lot i think
- By Katari on 06-27-25
By: Marlene L. Daut
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- By: Jonathan Healey
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics....
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- By cmurrell on 07-30-23
By: Jonathan Healey
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The Russian Revolution
- A New History
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution....
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Great Book on the Russian Revolution
- By Nostromo on 09-02-17
By: Sean McMeekin
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Shots Heard Round the World
- America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
- By: John Ferling
- Narrated by: Jason Keller
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
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In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots rang out. Militiamen were killed. The British continued marching, only to find even greater trouble in Concord and all the way down the road back to Boston.
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A high school history
- By mona berrier on 04-02-25
By: John Ferling
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Diarios de Motocicleta [The Motorcycle Diaries]
- Notas de viaje por América Latina
- By: Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara March - prefacio
- Narrated by: Peter Gomez
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Un muy joven Ernesto Guevara viaja por América Latina, junto a su amigo Alberto Granado, parten de Argentina y se enfrentan a aventuras y realidades que los transformarán para siempre....
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lástima la narración
- By Anonymous User on 08-23-22
By: Ernesto Che Guevara, and others
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Three Revolutions
- Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World
- By: Simon Hall
- Narrated by: Simon Hall
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions.
By: Simon Hall
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Revolution and Dictatorship
- The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
- By: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....
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the life cycle of authoritarians
- By DB in TN on 03-25-25
By: Steven Levitsky, and others