Soviet History

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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 11 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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    • How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
    • By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • This new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time....

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    • The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943-44
    • By: Prit Buttar
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this detailed and engrossing account of the war on the Eastern Front as the German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk....

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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 112 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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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 999 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display....

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    • The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
    • By: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle....

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    • A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
    • By: Richard Overy PhD
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory....

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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 391 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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    • An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
    • By: Gary C. Schroen
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history....

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    • Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
    • By: Catherine Merridale
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources....

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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 66 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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    • 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 374 ratings
    • The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.....

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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 958 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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    • 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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    • Money and Power in Resurgent Russia
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • In Putinomics, Chris Miller examines the making of Russian economic policy since Vladimir Putin took power in 1999....

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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 418 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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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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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 181 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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