Historical Biographies Russia

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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 341 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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    • 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 778 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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    • 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 1,052 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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 611 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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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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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 4,768 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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    • 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 85 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • 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 361 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 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 685 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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    • Operative in the Kremlin
    • By: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order....

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    • By: Robert Massie
    • Narrated by: Bryan Schmidt
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The cast of characters says it all: Nicholas II, the last great Tsar of Russia....

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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 251 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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    • The Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
    • By: James Palmer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg....

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    • The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
    • By: Rosemary Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin....

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