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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Great Game
- The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
- Written by: Peter Hopkirk
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....
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if only history is taught like this in school
- By hsia pai wu on 2023-06-27
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....
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A good histor, ok narrator
- By Kevin W. on 2023-04-01
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- Written by: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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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!
- By Sam on 2022-05-09
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- Written by: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Hair raising
- By Dmitry on 2019-05-15
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
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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 Applebaum....
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A must read for the budding western communists
- By Aaron C on 2021-12-31
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Great Game
- The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
- Written by: Peter Hopkirk
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....
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if only history is taught like this in school
- By hsia pai wu on 2023-06-27
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....
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A good histor, ok narrator
- By Kevin W. on 2023-04-01
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- Written by: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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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!
- By Sam on 2022-05-09
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- Written by: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
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Hair raising
- By Dmitry on 2019-05-15
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Applebaum....
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A must read for the budding western communists
- By Aaron C on 2021-12-31
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Staline 1
- (de 1878 à 1934)
- Written by: Jean-Jacques Marie
- Narrated by: Eric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
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L'ouverture des archives russes, il y a dix ans, permet de porter un regard neuf sur les grands personnages de l'histoire soviétique, à...
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Très bien !
- By Claude on 2021-08-15
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history....
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Very well written and interesting, but bias
- By Paul M. Gareau on 2021-10-27
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The Thirteenth Tribe: Original Edition
- Written by: Arthur Koestler
- Narrated by: J.R. Moorland
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Uncensored! This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism....
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
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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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A phenomenal history of the dissolution of the USSR
- By Anonymous User on 2023-05-24
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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- Written by: Helena Merriman
- Narrated by: Helena Merriman
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children - all willing to risk everything to escape....
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Excellent
- By Roberta W on 2022-11-27
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- Written by: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Wow
- By janie g on 2023-04-22
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Spies
- The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
- Written by: Calder Walton
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
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The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China....
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The Story of Russia
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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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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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs
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Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him—like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton—knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot....
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Great read, fascinating story
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-08-16
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
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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 very informative read.
- By Robert Hoskins on 2021-03-26
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Return of History
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs
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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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On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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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....
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Trump Derangement Syndrome as academic essay.
- By R. Ward on 2022-11-06
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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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 worst audiobook I have ever encountered
- By Wade Nelson on 2023-06-02
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Rasputin
- Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
- Written by: Douglas Smith
- Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
- Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard....
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An Informative Listen
- By Daly on 2019-03-01
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War and Punishment
- Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Written by: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others....
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Engaging narrative of how narratives create our worldview
- By Dmitry on 2023-11-30
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Written by: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Brilliant
- By Vladimir Zhivov on 2020-09-01
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- Written by: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million....
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As always...
- By Barbara M. on 2019-10-07
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- Written by: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history....
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Timely
- By TBInAB on 2018-09-14
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....
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A must read
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-04-09
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- Written by: Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs
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While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians....
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A Very Dense hour by hour telling of Kursk
- By Daniel Jones on 2018-12-03
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Killer in the Kremlin
- Written by: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine....
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A background of Putin everyone should listen to
- By F150 Guy on 2022-10-03
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- Written by: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables....
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One Soldier's War
- Written by: Arkady Babchenko, Nick Allen - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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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.
- By Xyo on 2022-07-31
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The Great Northern War
- The History of the Conflict that Made Russia the Dominant Empire in the Baltic
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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The Great Northern War, fought from 1700-1721, gets its name from the fact the war focused on the Baltic, but the battlefields extended into Germany and deep into Poland and Ukraine. Sweden was a military power with a small empire in the Baltic, while Russia was still a landlocked place, backward when compared to the rest of Europe, not very powerful, and highly xenophobic. The Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth was still powerful, and the Cossacks were still free.
Written by: Charles River Editors
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Into Siberia
- George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
- Written by: Gregory J. Wallance
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear.
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Stalingrad: The Battle of Stalingrad
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- Narrated by: Will Forrest
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Are you interested in learning more about what actually happened at Stalingrad during WW2? Do you want to understand the unique characteristics of the battle? If so, this book is for you. Step into the lives of soldiers, civilians, and leaders who experienced this defining battle. Explore personal accounts that reveal courage, sacrifice, and determination. With this book, you will delve into the battle's tactics, maneuvers, and decisions that shaped its outcome.
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The Soviet Sixties
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Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
Written by: Robert Hornsby
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Blood on the Snow
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In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives that underpin the extraordinary but troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas II and on Alexander Kerensky’s provisional government that deposed him. The other is the view from the bottom, that of the workers and peasants who wanted democratic socialism, not the Bolshevik dictatorship imposed by Lenin and his successors.
Written by: Robert Service
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What's Cooking in the Kremlin
- From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
- Written by: Witold Szablowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator
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In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szabłowski has tracked down—and broken bread with—people whose stories of working in Kremlin kitchens impart a surprising flavor to our understanding of one of the world’s superpowers. Traveling across Stalin’s Georgia, the war fronts of Afghanistan, the nuclear wastelands of Chornobyl, and even to a besieged steelworks plant in Mariupol, he shows that a century after the revolution, Russia still uses food as an instrument of war and feeds its people on propaganda.
Written by: Witold Szablowski, and others
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The Great Northern War
- The History of the Conflict that Made Russia the Dominant Empire in the Baltic
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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The Great Northern War, fought from 1700-1721, gets its name from the fact the war focused on the Baltic, but the battlefields extended into Germany and deep into Poland and Ukraine. Sweden was a military power with a small empire in the Baltic, while Russia was still a landlocked place, backward when compared to the rest of Europe, not very powerful, and highly xenophobic. The Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth was still powerful, and the Cossacks were still free.
Written by: Charles River Editors
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Into Siberia
- George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
- Written by: Gregory J. Wallance
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear.
Written by: Gregory J. Wallance
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Stalingrad: The Battle of Stalingrad
- Written by: Will Forrest
- Narrated by: Will Forrest
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Are you interested in learning more about what actually happened at Stalingrad during WW2? Do you want to understand the unique characteristics of the battle? If so, this book is for you. Step into the lives of soldiers, civilians, and leaders who experienced this defining battle. Explore personal accounts that reveal courage, sacrifice, and determination. With this book, you will delve into the battle's tactics, maneuvers, and decisions that shaped its outcome.
Written by: Will Forrest
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The Soviet Sixties
- Written by: Robert Hornsby
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
Written by: Robert Hornsby
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Blood on the Snow
- The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
- Written by: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives that underpin the extraordinary but troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas II and on Alexander Kerensky’s provisional government that deposed him. The other is the view from the bottom, that of the workers and peasants who wanted democratic socialism, not the Bolshevik dictatorship imposed by Lenin and his successors.
Written by: Robert Service
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What's Cooking in the Kremlin
- From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
- Written by: Witold Szablowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator
- Narrated by: David Garelik, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman
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In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szabłowski has tracked down—and broken bread with—people whose stories of working in Kremlin kitchens impart a surprising flavor to our understanding of one of the world’s superpowers. Traveling across Stalin’s Georgia, the war fronts of Afghanistan, the nuclear wastelands of Chornobyl, and even to a besieged steelworks plant in Mariupol, he shows that a century after the revolution, Russia still uses food as an instrument of war and feeds its people on propaganda.
Written by: Witold Szablowski, and others
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China and Russia
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Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile. Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants.
Written by: Philip Snow
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The Dissident
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THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable rival—so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny’s name.
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I Love Russia
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To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko’s unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself.
Written by: Elena Kostyuchenko, and others
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Russian History 3-In-1 Bundle
- From the Tsars to the Revolution and the 20th Century (From Rus to Russia, Book 4)
- Written by: Will Forrest
- Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of Russia's captivating past with this incredible 3-in-1 bundle, carefully crafted to bring you the most essential and captivating events that shaped this powerful nation. Dive deep into the intriguing lives of the Tsars, the gripping story of the Revolution, and the influential events of the 20th Century.
Written by: Will Forrest
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Russian History
- The 20th Century (From Rus to Russia, Book 3)
- Written by: Will Forrest
- Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Complete your journey through Russia's enthralling past with Russian History: The 20th Century, the highly anticipated final volume in our From Rus to Russia series. This riveting book guides you through a century of unparalleled change, as Russia transformed from a monarchy to a superpower and beyond.
Written by: Will Forrest
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Russian History: 1700-1906
- From Rus to Russia, Book 2
- Written by: Will Forrest
- Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Embark on a captivating journey through Russia's past with Russian History: 1700-1906, the second book in our engaging From Rus to Russia series. This book takes you through an era of transformation, where mighty empires grew and revolutionary ideas took root.
Written by: Will Forrest