Soviet Biographies

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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....

    Regular price: $24.04

    • The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper
    • By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, David Foreman, Martin Pelger, Alla Igorevna Begunova
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2,000 female snipers....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • By: Cliff Stoll
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,735 ratings
    • Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • 1613-1918
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Simon Beale
    • Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,335 ratings
    • This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • Memoirs 1954 - 2021
    • By: Angela Merkel
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes.

    Regular price: $20.56

    • By: Robert J. Hutchinson
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • A Child and a Country at the End of History
    • By: Lea Ypi
    • Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Study in History and Personality
    • By: Robert C. Tucker
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The first of two biographical volumes, Professor Robert C. Tucker covers Stalin's life from his first revolutionary years until the end of the 1920s....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A Memoir of Food and Longing
    • By: Anya von Bremzen
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations...

    Regular price: $20.25

    • How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
    • By: Craig Unger
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 483 ratings
    • This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. From Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine....

    Regular price: $20.25

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    • Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
    • By: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel
    • Narrated by: Jim McCance
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,221 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • A New History of Soviet Intelligence
    • By: Jonathan Haslam
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving military intelligence and the special service - which specialized in codes and ciphers - lurking in the shadows....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Michael Pullara
    • Narrated by: Michael Pullara
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • The shocking true story of international intrigue involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow....

    Regular price: $20.24

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    • By: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Philip Short’s comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years, gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.

    Regular price: $33.74