Historical Biographies Russia

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    • Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family....

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir - the author's riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end....

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    • A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
    • By: Kenneth D. Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities....

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    • The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Donnie Eichar
    • Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,713 ratings
    • In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....

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    • A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • After five years as a prisoner, 29-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive.....

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

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    • Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard....

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    • The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Bringing Lenin to life for the first time as a complex human being, Sebestyen casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history....

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    • Viking Warriors Including Rollo, Norsemen, Norse Mythology, Quests in America, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Russia
    • By: Noah Brown
    • Narrated by: Dalan E. Decker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary warrior who left a legacy among the Vikings like none other. Today's popular TV show may have popularized Ragnar's story, but the real facts are not very well known. Discover the truth behind this Viking warrior and the rich history of the Vikings....

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    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest....

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    • The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 892 ratings
    • They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses—Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov—were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes....

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    • George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
    • By: Gregory J. Wallance
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent....

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    • The Final Chapter
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters....

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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
    • Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating....

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....

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