Soviet Century

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    • Archaeology of a Lost World
    • By: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization....

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    • By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

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    • By: Robert Hornsby
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Union
    • By: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world....

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    • A Reassessment
    • By: Robert Conquest
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.....

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    • By: Alexandra Popoff
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century....

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 was one of the defining events of the 20th century. This new federation, created to embody the ideals of communism and the notion of rule by the people, was intended to be different from any other nation in the world....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Madeline Miller
    • Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38,266 ratings
    • A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the author of Circe.

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    • The Soviet War in Afghanistan
    • By: Gregory Feifer
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In gripping detail, Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered....

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    • The Story of War
    • By: Gregory Carleton
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1979, alarmed Soviet leaders watched the growing civil war in Afghanistan with trepidation. Russia’s neighbor had been a close ally for many years, acting as a buffer between Russia and British India....

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    • Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
    • By: Erika Fatland
    • Narrated by: Jill Rolls
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world....

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    • By: Vasily Chuikov
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Vasiliy Chuikov offers a detailed history of the Battle of Stalingrad. He was there. Chuikov's account of the battle was first published in 1962. ...

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    • The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Stalin had ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years before his death in 1953, just as Stalin was preparing to conduct another purge. With his death, Soviet strongman and long-time Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), became the Soviet premier....

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    • Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
    • By: Shaun Walker
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 04-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West.

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    • By: Mandy Robotham
    • Narrated by: Charlie Norfolk, Hattie Ladbury
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Life in the Soviet Union and Some of the Main Events on the Eastern Front Such as the Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk, and Siege of Leningrad
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • No nation suffered more losses during the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The figure most historians recognize as roughly accurate is 20 million. The exact figure is impossible to tally for a number of reasons....

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    • The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-19
    • Language: English
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    • In 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed, the country was ravaged by disease and starvation claimed the lives of millions....

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