Soviet Union History

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,052 ratings
    • In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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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    • By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Steve Fortune
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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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    • 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

    • 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 472 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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    • 9th Edition
    • By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.

    Regular price: $31.49

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

    Regular price: $33.50

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

    Regular price: $18.05

    • The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
    • By: William R. Trotter
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet Union....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • 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 263 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Timothy J. Colton
    • Narrated by: Timothy Howard Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player....

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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 93 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 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....

    Regular price: $22.49

    • 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 994 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....

    Regular price: $24.05

    • 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 104 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 232 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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