Soviet Communism

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    • By: Francis Spufford
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • A New History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 960 ratings
    • Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

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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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    • 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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    • The Fall of the Soviet Empire
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • Revolution 1989 by British journalist Victor Sebestyen is a comprehensive and revealing account of those dizzying days that toppled Soviet tyranny and changed the World....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century....

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    • Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
    • By: John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing not only on the Venona papers but also on newly opened Russian and U. S. archives, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr provide the most rigorously documented analysis ever written on Soviet espionage in the early Cold War years.

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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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    • The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR....

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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • By: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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    • The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    • By: David Remnick
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....

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    • The True Odyssey of an American Youth who Miraculously Survived the Concentration Camps of the Soviet Gulag
    • By: Thomas Sgovio
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Dear America! is the incredible first-hand account about how a young American teenager, Thomas Sgovio (1916-1997), miraculously survived 10 years ...

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    • Wealth and Power in the New Russia
    • By: David Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

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    • Russia Against the West and with the Rest
    • By: Angela Stent
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....

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    • An Accessible Journey Through Soviet Economic History
    • By: Viktor Petrov
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Step into the shadowy realm of Soviet economics with "Red Economics: An Accessible Journey Through Soviet Economic History." This captivating ...

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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
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    • 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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    • The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Janet Wallach tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars....

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    • From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
    • By: Stephen F. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Holden Still
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the 20th century. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership....

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    • Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism
    • By: Mark Harrison
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the first comprehensive history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union....

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