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 12 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: 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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    • 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 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 423 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 History of Communism
    • By: David Priestland
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across 200 years....

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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 224 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,001 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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    • 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 87 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 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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    • 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 32 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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    • 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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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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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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    • Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Stalin, Book 1
    • Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
    • A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....

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    • Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
    • By: David Stahel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing 750,000 men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II....

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    • A City and Its People at War
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • The 1941 Battle of Moscow, unquestionably one of the most decisive battles of World War II, marked the first strategic defeat of the German armed forces in their seemingly unstoppable march....

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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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