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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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“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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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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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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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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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre, John le Carré
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...
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Could not put it down
- Écrit par mcgr le 2024-05-30
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Spies
- The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
- Auteur(s): Calder Walton
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 20 h et 22 min
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Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the...
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Fascinating history, disappointing epilogue
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-04-07
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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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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....
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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
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Au global503
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Performance408
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Histoire404
“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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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 global437
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Performance367
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Histoire369
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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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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Performance120
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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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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Auteur(s): Ben Macintyre, John le Carré
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h
- Version intégrale
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Performance51
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...
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Could not put it down
- Écrit par mcgr le 2024-05-30
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Spies
- The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
- Auteur(s): Calder Walton
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 20 h et 22 min
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Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the...
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Fascinating history, disappointing epilogue
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-04-07
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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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Performance913
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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart....
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Incredible story, well written and very engaging.
- Écrit par Unfluential le 2017-11-15
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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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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 Cold War
- A New History
- Auteur(s): John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrateur(s): Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
- Durée: 9 h et 51 min
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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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Generic cold war history
- Écrit par Grace le 2019-07-19
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Kiev 1941
- Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
- Auteur(s): David Stahel
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
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In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing 750,000 men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II....
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Detailed, and thoughtful
- Écrit par Shawn Fraser le 2025-04-13
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The Soviet Century
- Archaeology of a Lost World
- Auteur(s): Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
- Narrateur(s): Ciaran Saward
- Durée: 29 h et 56 min
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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....
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Looking glass into a hidden world
- Écrit par Goldfish le 2025-02-12
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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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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
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-05-24
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At Leningrad's Gates
- The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North
- Auteur(s): William Lubbeck
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
- Durée: 8 h et 47 min
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This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front....
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From France to Leningrad
- Écrit par Brandon le 2024-02-22
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Into Siberia
- George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
- Auteur(s): Gregory J. Wallance
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
- Durée: 9 h et 4 min
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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....
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The Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
- The History of the Russian Conflicts Against the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Houle
- Durée: 1 h et 58 min
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Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished....
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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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. As the award-winning historian...
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A good histor, ok narrator
- Écrit par Kevin W. le 2023-04-01
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A History of Russia
- 9th Edition
- Auteur(s): Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
- Narrateur(s): Rich Miller
- Durée: 33 h et 16 min
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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.
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Auteur(s): Sean McMeekin
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 24 h et 56 min
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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. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when...
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Very well written and interesting, but bias
- Écrit par Paul M. Gareau le 2021-10-27
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Auteur(s): Laurence Rees
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 18 h et 17 min
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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and...
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great book
- Écrit par Dariusz le 2021-05-07
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Crimea
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Malk Williams
- Durée: 20 h et 38 min
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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entertaining and informative
- Écrit par brian finamore le 2020-05-22
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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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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....
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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 Cold War
- A World History
- Auteur(s): Odd Arne Westad
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 22 h et 44 min
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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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Comprehensive Cold War study
- Écrit par Kevin W. le 2022-06-08
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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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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 14 h et 52 min
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A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe...
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Excellent Book!
- Écrit par Sschonwa le 2023-06-23
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A People’s Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Roger Davis
- Durée: 47 h et 1 min
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
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Heartbreaking but not very analytically precise
- Écrit par Zooid le 2025-09-13
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- Auteur(s): Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
- Durée: 45 h et 9 min
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction....
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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.