Soviet Union History

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    • Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 2022-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale—the chaos and hope of...

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Union
    • Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-30
    • Language: English
    • 20 ratings
    • 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 History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
    • Written by: Richard Overy PhD
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2022-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory. Now with access to the...

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    • How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Regime
    • Written by: Grigory Rodchenkov
    • Narrated by: Andrew Byron
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • Brought to you by Penguin. ***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' In 2015...

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    • The Destruction of the Soviet Union and the Making of New Russia 1985-1991
    • Written by: Robert Service
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2026-06-11
    • Language: English
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    • ‘A must-read for those fascinated by the decline and fall of the USSR and the emergence of a new Russia’ – Mark Galeotti, author of Forged in War 'Finely argued, carefully researched, and beautifully written' – Norman M. Naimark, author of Stalin and the Fate of Europe From the acclaimed...

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    • A History
    • Written by: Alexander Werth, Nicolas Werth - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 38 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human...

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    • An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
    • Written by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 64 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Stephen Lovell
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2026-08-04
    • Language: English
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    • The Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world's land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United States, it was the great threat of the Cold War until it suddenly collapsed in 1991. Now, almost...

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    • Archaeology of a Lost World
    • Written by: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound...

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 17 ratings
    • 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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    • 9th Edition
    • Written by: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • 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. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political...

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    • A History of Ukraine
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • A New York Times Bestseller The definitive history of Ukraine from antiquity to today. “An admirable new history.... In his elegant and careful exposition of Ukraine’s past, Mr. Plokhy has also provided some signposts to the future.” ―Economist As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing...

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    • [The Shortest History of the Soviet Union]
    • Written by: Шейла Фицпатрик
    • Narrated by: Екатерина Бабкова
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2026-05-06
    • Language: Russian
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    • Это живое и достоверное повествование о непростой истории СССР, усыпанное яркими деталями, неожиданными ракурсами и остроумными замечаниями. В первую очередь Фицпатрик ясно показывает множество парадоксов советского эксперимента.

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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • Written by: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2010-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the February and October Revolutions and the Rise of the Soviet Union Led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks
    • Written by: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Timothy Burke
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • The Russian Revolution was the most important and progressive political event of the 20th century. There is a lot to learn from these explosive political episodes and many remarkable stories to discover....

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    • How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
    • Written by: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Masha Gessen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 37 ratings
    • WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia...

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    • A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today
    • Written by: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • Bloomsbury presents Forged in War: A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today by Mark Galeotti, read by Simon Shepherd. A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of...

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    • Written by: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2022-07-26
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • "In a deep, resonant voice, Jonathan Keeble gives a splendid narration of this long and well-researched biography of Vladimir Putin."- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by award-winning actor Jonathan Keeble. The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into...

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    • Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
    • Written by: Shaun Walker
    • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2025-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...

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    • A New History of World War II
    • Written by: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 28 ratings
    • A prize-winning historian’s major new history of the Second World War, arguing that Stalin’s USSR was the war’s driving force. “A provocative revisionist take on the Second World War … McMeekin is a formidable researcher.” —Financial Times We remember World War II as a struggle...

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