Soviet Russia History

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    • A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
    • By: Richard Overy PhD
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 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....

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    • By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 12-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 9th Edition
    • By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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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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    • Archaeology of a Lost World
    • By: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program....

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Union
    • By: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • 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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    • How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
    • By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time....

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    • The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
    • By: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
    • By: David Stahel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: David Sibley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past—and how they can inform its present....

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    • The Story of War
    • By: Gregory Carleton
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed....

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    • By: Robert Hornsby
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....

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    • The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike against the Iron Curtain
    • By: Albert Lulushi
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency....

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    • A Short History
    • By: Abraham Ascher
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Jade McGlynn
    • Narrated by: Jade McGlynn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war—one in which they are the courageous underdogs and kind-hearted heroes....

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    • By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

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    • How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
    • By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

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    • Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
    • By: Heidi Blake
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • Russia’s resurgent encroachment into the West is the defining geopolitical story of our time - and a topic of insatiable public fascination....

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