Soviet Life

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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.

    Regular price: $38.00

    • 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 209 ratings
    • A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $2.44

    • 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 18 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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.

    Regular price: $20.99

    • 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 21 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • By: Fred Virski
    • Narrated by: Kevin Waits
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • "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.

    Regular price: $4.89

    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Woman Who Became World War II’s Most Successful Female Fighter Pilot
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Partly out of dire circumstances and partly from a cultural worldview, it was the Soviet Union who first pressed female pilots into direct combat when Hitler invaded Russia....

    Regular price: $5.42

    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.95

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    • The Lives and Deaths of a Soviet
    • By: Wayne Elder Albert, Rosina Albert Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-25
    • Language: English
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    • Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR, 1974 to Seattle, USA, 1992: Natalya was only six when her parents were killed in Baku. Accident? Suicide? Assassination? A ...

    Regular price: $6.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $6.95

    • 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 6 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Cup of Life, Komarov Case, Moscow Settings, Psalm, Moonshine Springs, Séance, Shifting Accommodation, The Beer Story, The Embroidered Towel
    • By: Mikhail Bulgakov, S.E. Torrens - translator, Julia Shmatko - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Coates, Mark Bowen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-25
    • Language: English
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    • Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities...

    Regular price: $4.89

    • A Memoir of My Life Journey
    • By: Lara Gelya
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Camel from Kyzylkum is an award-winning memoir about the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of immigrating from the Soviet Union in the ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • 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
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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.

    Regular price: $6.95

    • Life Lessons from Russian Literature
    • By: Viv Groskop
    • Narrated by: Julia Knippen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country)....

    Regular price: $17.50

    • A Novel
    • By: Kateřina Tučková, Véronique Firkusny - translator
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková - her first to be translated into English - about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world....

    Regular price: $25.00

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    • By: Антон Чехов
    • Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-24
    • Language: Russian
    • Not rated yet
    • Дом с мезонином — один из самых трогательных рассказов Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904). Известный художник, он же рассказчик этой истории...

    Regular price: $1.92