Soviet Biographies

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    • 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 1,665 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....

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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 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 175 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....

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    • 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 167 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....

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    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
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    • The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world....

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    • 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
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    • 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....

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    • A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
    • By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
    • Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

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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 1,003 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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    • 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 1,315 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....

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    • 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....

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    • Space, Science, American Ambition, and Soviet Chaos at the Cold War’s End
    • By: Barry L. Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR.

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    • A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,777 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the agency's Moscow station....

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    • 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 2,134 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....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
    • By: George Crile
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267 ratings
    • Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....

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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 87 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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    • Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
    • By: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
    • Narrated by: Rob Heaps
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies....

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    • 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 120 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...

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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 286 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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