Soviet Politics

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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 518 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Novel of the Cold War
    • By: Anika Scott
    • Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson, Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin....

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    • A Child and a Country at the End of History
    • By: Lea Ypi
    • Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party....

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    • Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
    • By: Rebekah Koffler
    • Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press....

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    • Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • By: Cliff Stoll
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,660 ratings
    • Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....

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    • Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
    • By: Rachel Maddow
    • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,041 ratings
    • In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million....

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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 159 ratings
    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • By: Alan Furst
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: Night Soldiers, Book 2
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 05-27-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 996 ratings
    • Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s.

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    • A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....

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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
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    • 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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    • Soviet Endgame, Book 2
    • By: James Rosone, Alex Aaronson
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Series: Soviet Endgame, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Fresh off his victory in the 1980 Presidential election, Jimmy Carter works with his National Security team to not only defend Western Europe, but prevent this war from going nuclear.

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    • The Final Days of the Soviet Union
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president....

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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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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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    • Soviet Endgame, Book 3
    • By: James Rosone, Alex Aaronson
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Series: Soviet Endgame, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • NATO Counterstrikes…and Western tanks storm into Germany. Can they break the Warsaw Pact? With the Soviet conquest of Germany nearly complete, the alliance falters.

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    • 1613-1918
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Simon Beale
    • Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,314 ratings
    • This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....

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    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world....

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