Soviet Union History Biography

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,001 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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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,130 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
    • By: George Crile
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,266 ratings
    • Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest....

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    • Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
    • By: Simon Shuster
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access....

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    • The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
    • By: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews....

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 670 ratings
    • A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....

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    • The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
    • By: Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer...

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    • 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 20 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....

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    • The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
    • By: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Masha Gessen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 659 ratings
    • The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world....

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    • A True Story of the Cold War
    • By: Giles Whittell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962....

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    • Operative in the Kremlin
    • By: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order....

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    • Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution....

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