Soviet Life

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    • By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,273 ratings
    • In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling"....

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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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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,327 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
    • By: Benjamin Nathans
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • Benjamin Nathans provides a gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia.

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941
    • By: Roger Moorhouse
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies - the two opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war....

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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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    • A Novel
    • By: Heather B. Moore
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill, Christa Lewis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 963 ratings
    • A riveting and emotionally gripping novel of an American soldier working as a spy in Soviet-occupied East Germany and a West German woman secretly helping her countrymen escape from behind the Berlin Wall....

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    • A Memoir of My Life Journey
    • By: Lara Gelya
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Camel from Kyzylkum is an award-winning memoir about the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of immigrating from the Soviet Union in the ...

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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: Fred Virski
    • Narrated by: Kevin Waits
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • "My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century.

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    • The Soviet Women Pilots of World War II
    • By: Bruce Berglund, Trevor Goring
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Series: Amazing World War II Stories
    • Length: 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Flying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navigational equipment of any kind. Sound impossible? It wasn't for the Soviet Night Witches....

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Greatest General During World War II
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • At the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviets were so caught by surprise at the start of the attack that the Germans were able to push several hundred miles into Russia across a front that stretched dozens of miles long.

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    • Life and Death in Ukraine
    • By: Christopher Miller
    • Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Frontline journalist and Financial Times reporter Christopher Miller tells the inside story of Ukraine's bravery and defiance in the face of Russian aggression...

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    • A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)
    • By: Joshua Rubenstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune...

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Last Leader
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985....

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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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    • A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
    • By: Timothy Phillips
    • Narrated by: Gerard McCarthy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of WWII, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. But what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake? Timothy Phillips travels its full 3,000-mile route to craft this new people's history of a defining 20th-century conflict....

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