Soviet Science

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    • The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
    • By: Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 640 ratings
    • Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of 99 lives....

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    • A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,779 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the agency's Moscow station....

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    • A Definitive History
    • By: Seth Hettena
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • Is the 45th president of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump's long involvement with Russia in damning detail - including new reporting never before published....

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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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    • How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
    • By: John Strausbaugh
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • John Strausbaugh takes us behind the Iron Curtain in this witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science....

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    • Wealth and Power in the New Russia
    • By: David Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

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    • Space, Science, American Ambition, and Soviet Chaos at the Cold War’s End
    • By: Barry L. Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR.

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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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    • The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia
    • By: Timothy Frye
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy....

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
    • By: Arkady Ostrovsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation....

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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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    • 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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    • An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
    • By: Michael McFaul
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president....

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    • By: Robert Service
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War opens a window onto the dramatic years that would irrevocably alter the world's geopolitical landscape....

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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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