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War and Peace
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Chloe Pirrie, Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, and others
- Length: 67 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself.
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Falling Stars
- By Bill M. on 2020-10-11
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War and Peace
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Chloe Pirrie, Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, Olivia Darnley, Terence Wilton
- Length: 67 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-30
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
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Too much
- By Vlad on 2022-01-19
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A People’s Tragedy
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Story of Russia is about how the Russians defined themselves―and repeatedly reinvented such definitions along the way. Moving from Russia’s agrarian beginnings in the first millennium to subsequent periods of monarchy, totalitarianism, and perestroika, all the way up to Vladimir Putin and his use of myths of Russian history to bolster his regime, celebrated historian Orlando Figes examines the ideas that have guided the country’s actions.
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The Story of Russia
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-27
- Language: English
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
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Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-13
- Language: English
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-30
- Language: English
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Crimea
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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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. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
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entertaining and informative
- By brian finamore on 2020-05-22
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Crimea
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-12
- Language: English
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Just Send Me Word
- A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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In 1946, after five years as a prisoner - first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee in the Arctic Gulag - 29-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years, the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag.
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Just Send Me Word
- A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-22
- Language: English
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-08
- Language: English
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La historia de Rusia [The History of Russia]
- Written by: Orlando Figes, María Serrano Giménez - translator
- Narrated by: Luis Ignacio González
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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La historia de Rusia se ha visto marcada como pocas por el empleo de mitos con fines políticos. Ningún otro país ha reinventado su propio relato con tanta frecuencia, en un esfuerzo perpetuo por adaptarse a los cambios de las ideologías dominantes, y esa tendencia es precisamente un aspecto vital de su cultura. Para comprender lo que depara el futuro del país—y lo que significa el régimen de Putin para Rusia y para el resto del mundo—debemos desentrañar las ideas y los significados de esa historia.
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La historia de Rusia [The History of Russia]
- Narrated by: Luis Ignacio González
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-23
- Language: Spanish
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Los europeos [The Europeans]
- Tres vidas y el nacimiento de la cultura europea
- Written by: Orlando Figes, María Serrano Giménez
- Narrated by: David Carrillo
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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El siglo XIX europeo, un momento de logros artísticos sin precedentes, fue la primera era de la globalización cultural, una época en que las comunicaciones masivas y los viajes en tren de alta velocidad reunieron a Europa, superando las barreras del nacionalismo y facilitando el surgimiento de un verdadero canon europeo de obras artísticas, musicales y literarias. Llegado 1900, se leían los mismos libros, se reproducían las mismas obras artísticas, se representaban las mismas óperas y se interpretaba la misma música en los hogares.
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Los europeos [The Europeans]
- Tres vidas y el nacimiento de la cultura europea
- Narrated by: David Carrillo
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-18
- Language: Spanish
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