World Communism

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    • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.

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    • International Communism and the Origins of World War II
    • By: Jonathan Haslam
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew - the roots of the Second World War - and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 869 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
    • By: Paul L. Williams
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....

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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 961 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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    • John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
    • By: Paul Kengor
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 320 ratings
    • Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth of the bond that developed between the two....

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    • The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
    • By: Richard McGregor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States....

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    • The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
    • By: Julia Boyd
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
    • By: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • By: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • A History
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 971 ratings
    • In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....

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    • By: Archie Brown
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism, a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe....

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    • Russia Against the West and with the Rest
    • By: Angela Stent
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....

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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 1,003 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 World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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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 4,267 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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