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 343 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 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 1,055 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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    • 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 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 4,769 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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    • 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 614 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 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 686 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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    • 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 899 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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    • The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 529 ratings
    • Prize-winning historian and biographer, Carolly Erickson has created an eminently readable biography that recognizes the humanity of Great Catherine with her majesty and immense capability....

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    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

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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 86 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 362 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 First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
    • By: Edvard Radzinsky
    • Narrated by: David McCallum
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain...

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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 289 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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    • 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 200 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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