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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Durée: 21 h et 53 min
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Performance411
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Histoire407
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-11-13
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Gulag
- A History
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 27 h et 41 min
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Performance54
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Histoire55
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Essential reading in today's times
- Écrit par Kendall L. Harding le 2022-04-10
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Auteur(s): Stephen Kotkin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hecht
- Durée: 38 h et 47 min
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Histoire49
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- Écrit par Vladimir Zhivov le 2020-09-01
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- Auteur(s): China Mieville
- Narrateur(s): John Banks
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
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Histoire19
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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Very great book
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-18
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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Performance368
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Histoire370
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Hair raising
- Écrit par Dmitry le 2019-05-15
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Auteur(s): Bill Browder
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
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Histoire916
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to...
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Incredible story, well written and very engaging.
- Écrit par Unfluential le 2017-11-15
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Durée: 21 h et 53 min
- Version abrégée
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Au global507
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Performance411
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Histoire407
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-11-13
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Gulag
- A History
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 27 h et 41 min
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Au global63
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Performance54
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Histoire55
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Essential reading in today's times
- Écrit par Kendall L. Harding le 2022-04-10
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Auteur(s): Stephen Kotkin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hecht
- Durée: 38 h et 47 min
- Version intégrale
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Performance51
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Histoire49
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- Écrit par Vladimir Zhivov le 2020-09-01
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- Auteur(s): China Mieville
- Narrateur(s): John Banks
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
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Histoire19
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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Very great book
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-18
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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Au global438
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Performance368
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Histoire370
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Hair raising
- Écrit par Dmitry le 2019-05-15
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Auteur(s): Bill Browder
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
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November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to...
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Incredible story, well written and very engaging.
- Écrit par Unfluential le 2017-11-15
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Auteur(s): Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 23 h et 50 min
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A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union - showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise 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...
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A phenomenal history of the dissolution of the USSR
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-24
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Snyder
- Durée: 9 h et 45 min
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...
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Trump Derangement Syndrome as academic essay.
- Écrit par R. Ward le 2022-11-06
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Aris
- Durée: 27 h et 50 min
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Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...
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A very informative read.
- Écrit par Robert Hoskins le 2021-03-26
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Auteur(s): Donnie Eichar
- Narrateur(s): Donnie Eichar
- Durée: 6 h et 23 min
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....
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In depth and gripping story
- Écrit par toby snelgrove le 2018-08-12
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War on the Eastern Front
- The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
- Auteur(s): James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Chris MacDonnell
- Durée: 11 h et 12 min
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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. A posting to the Eastern Front during the Second World War was rightly regarded with dread...
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An excellent account of fighting on the eastern front.
- Écrit par David Zulkoskey le 2021-01-24
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- Auteur(s): Bill Browder
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....
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I loved it!
- Écrit par Sam le 2022-05-09
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Auteur(s): Vladimir Lenin
- Narrateur(s): Michael Richards
- Durée: 14 h et 3 min
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924....
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Buy this book
- Écrit par Jen le 2022-08-21
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Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- Auteur(s): Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrateur(s): Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Autres
- Durée: 22 h et 58 min
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ...
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Stalingrad
- Auteur(s): David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
- Durée: 18 h et 39 min
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Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long-awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy...
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Hard to follow
- Écrit par Bryan F le 2021-05-27
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August 1914
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts - Translator - translator
- Narrateur(s): Rich Miller
- Durée: 43 h et 38 min
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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...
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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- Auteur(s): Helena Merriman
- Narrateur(s): Helena Merriman
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East...
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Excellent
- Écrit par RW le 2022-11-27
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Deathride
- Hitler vs. Stalin: The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
- Auteur(s): John Mosier
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 12 h et 50 min
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John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. Although the Eastern Front was the biggest and most important theater in World War II, it is not well known in the United States, as no American troops participated in the fighting. Yet historians agree that this is...
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Auteur(s): Leon Trotsky
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Booth
- Durée: 53 h et 6 min
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical...
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Anne Applebaum
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 17 h et 46 min
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AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural...
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A must read
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-04-09
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Motherland
- A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
- Auteur(s): Julia Ioffe
- Narrateur(s): Julia Ioffe
- Durée: 17 h et 52 min
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Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how...
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The Prophet
- The Life of Leon Trotsky
- Auteur(s): Isaac Deutscher
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 62 h et 43 min
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This three-part biography of Leon Trotsky was hailed by Graham Greene as one of "the greatest . . . in the English language"—a must listen for those interested in the history of Soviet Russia and international communism. Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
- Durée: 11 h
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An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe....
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Stalingrad
- Auteur(s): Antony Beevor
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August...
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Auteur(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrateur(s): Simon Russell Beale
- Durée: 28 h et 41 min
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and...
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the worst audiobook I have ever encountered
- Écrit par Wade Nelson le 2023-06-02
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Auteur(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 25 h et 56 min
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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A must read for the budding western communists
- Écrit par Aaron C le 2021-12-31
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The Story of Russia
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
- Durée: 12 h et 38 min
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Celebrated historian Orlando Figes presents a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding....
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Auteur(s): Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 18 h
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
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New material..
- Écrit par Kindle RBW le 2018-11-24
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One Soldier's War
- Auteur(s): Arkady Babchenko, Nick Allen - translator
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 11 h et 49 min
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In 1995 Arkady Babchenko was an 18-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya....
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Grim.
- Écrit par Xyo le 2022-07-31
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A Frozen Hell
- The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
- Auteur(s): William R. Trotter
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Durée: 11 h et 56 min
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In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet Union....