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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 11 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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    • 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 419 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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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

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    • The Soviet War in Afghanistan
    • By: Gregory Feifer
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In gripping detail, Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered....

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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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    • 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 85 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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    • 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 374 ratings
    • The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.....

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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 223 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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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • By: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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    • By: Francis Spufford
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
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    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

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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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    • By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Steve Fortune
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....

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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
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    • 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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