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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- By: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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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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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Cold War Exiles and the CIA
- Plotting to Free Russia
- By: Benjamin Tromly
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany.
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Cold War Exiles and the CIA
- Plotting to Free Russia
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
- By: Vladimir lenin
- Narrated by: Andrew Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin began the composition of an early draft of State and Revolution while in exile in Switzerland in 1916, under the title "Marxism on the State". "Soviets", legislative bodies of workers and peasants were the de facto governments of Petrograd and many smaller cities.
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The State and Revolution
- Narrated by: Andrew Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-01-24
- Language: English
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Vladimir Putin: The Controversial Life of Russia's President
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel F Purcell
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Despite serving as the president of Russia from 2000 to 2008 following Boris Yeltsin's regime, and again since the spring of 2012, remarkably little is known of enigmatic former KGB spy Vladimir Putin other than the most mainstream life statistics and some minimally revealing fragments of memoirs and anecdotal observations.
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Hard to stay focussed
- By Willow The Wisp on 13-04-17
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Vladimir Putin: The Controversial Life of Russia's President
- Narrated by: Daniel F Purcell
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-06-15
- Language: English
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The Cossacks
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first dilemma is that of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.
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The Cossacks
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-01-06
- Language: English
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The Great Northern War
- The History of the Conflict that Made Russia the Dominant Empire in the Baltic
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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The Great Northern War
- The History of the Conflict that Made Russia the Dominant Empire in the Baltic
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-12-23
- Language: English
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The Sinner and the Saint
- Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
- By: Kevin Birmingham
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment...
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The Sinner and the Saint
- Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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The Cossack Hetmanate: The History and Legacy of the Cossacks and Their Autonomous Republic in the Ukraine
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 52 mins
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The history of Ukraine is a fascinating story of how cultures, political systems, religions, and power have met, intersected, morphed, and expanded. After various cultures helped develop the region, the legendary Cossacks arrived during the early modern period and dominated the region for several centuries, forming an independent republic that helped forge Ukrainian identity to this day. Even as the origins of these ferocious fighters remain murky and obscure, the Cossacks have continued their growing international appearance with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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The Cossack Hetmanate: The History and Legacy of the Cossacks and Their Autonomous Republic in the Ukraine
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- By: Paul Josephson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh. In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the...
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-12-22
- Language: English
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Stalin as Warlord
- By: Alfred J. Rieber
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader, arguing that his policies were profoundly paradoxical.
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Stalin as Warlord
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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Odessa
- Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city's Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.
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Dreadful narration
- By barclay174 on 27-10-22
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Odessa
- Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-08-13
- Language: English
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Сибирь и сибиряки, или русские конкистадоры
- By: Александр Бушков
- Narrated by: Всеволод Кузнецов
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Что мы знаем сегодня о Сибири? Что это богатый и суровый край, где большую часть времени царствует арктический холод. Что осваивали эти безграничные таежные просторы казаки-первопроходцы, а еще путешественники и мореплаватели.
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Сибирь и сибиряки, или русские конкистадоры
- Narrated by: Всеволод Кузнецов
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-01-21
- Language: Russian
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The Ukrainian Night
- An Intimate History of Revolution
- By: Marci Shore
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents, and children, Shore's book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian's reflections on what revolution is and what it means.
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Amplification of russian talking points.
- By Alex on 26-10-24
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The Ukrainian Night
- An Intimate History of Revolution
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin & Leon Trotsky
- The Soviet Union's Big Three
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Johnston
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Among the leaders of the 20th century, arguably none shaped the course of history as much as Vladimir Lenin. If Adolf Hitler had not inflicted the devastation of World War II upon Europe, it's quite likely that the West would consider Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) the 20th century's greatest tyrant. Along with Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky led the October Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and held crucial posts in the early Soviet governments.
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A liberal view of revolutionary politics.
- By derek john marsdon on 02-01-22
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Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin & Leon Trotsky
- The Soviet Union's Big Three
- Narrated by: Bill Johnston
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-07-15
- Language: English
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The Curse of Empire
- Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
- By: Martin Schulze Wessel, Neil Solomon - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of Russia's actions in Ukraine, argues the distinguished historian Martin Schulze Wessel, by putting them in the broader context of the history of Russian imperialism and the influence it continues to exert today.
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The Curse of Empire
- Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Tsar Nicholas II: A Life From Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Reigning from 1894 to 1917, Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia. His rule served as the bookends between what were essentially two Russian empires; the one that his forefathers carved out through imperial ambition and the one dictated by the zealous communists of the Soviet Union bent on socialist expansion. Nicholas was by most accounts a conflicted ruler; a man viewed as kind and generous in his mannerisms, yet alleged to be greatly disconnected and apathetic toward the subjects he was supposed to rule over.
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Tsar Nicolas II
- By Cheryl on 23-03-23
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Tsar Nicholas II: A Life From Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-11-18
- Language: English
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Spies in the Vatican
- The Soviet Union's Cold War Against the Catholic Church
- By: John O. Koehler
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Already infamous for the arbitrary, paranoid persecution of its own citizens throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union - as is revealed in John Koeher’s revelatory, eye-opening exposé - also waged a vicious espionage campaign against the Catholic Church and its followers. From the persecution of local priests to an assassination order against Pope John Paul II, the KGB viewed Catholicism as a threat to stability in Eastern Europe and treated the church as an enemy of the State. Lifetime journalist and former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer John Koehler has written the definitive book on this startling history.
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Spies in the Vatican
- The Soviet Union's Cold War Against the Catholic Church
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-05-13
- Language: English
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Faustian Bargain
- The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
- By: Ian Ona Johnson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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Beginning in the years immediately after the First World War and continuing for more than a decade, the German military and the Soviet Union, despite having been bitter enemies, entered into a partnership designed to overturn the order in Europe. Centering on economic and military cooperation, the arrangement led to the establishment of a network of military bases and industrial facilities on Soviet soil, away from the oversight established by Versailles.
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Faustian Bargain
- The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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The History of Ukraine
- A Guide to this Fascinating Country: Covering Chernobyl, the Crimean War, Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Much More
- By: David Barnett
- Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Retrace the history of Ukraine and discover its unique cultural identity with this incredible history audiobook. With a gripping and deeply informative exploration of the fascinating history behind Ukraine, this audiobook offers an unparalleled look into the rich cultural legacy of a country that has endured the tests of time. Drawing on a foundation of history, archaeology, and anthropology, this audiobook provides a comprehensive account of Ukraine from prehistoric times to the present day. Delving into the diverse people and tribes that ruled Ukraine.
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don't waste your money
- By Wayne Swallow on 30-06-24
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The History of Ukraine
- A Guide to this Fascinating Country: Covering Chernobyl, the Crimean War, Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Much More
- Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Exit Stalin
- The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953–1991
- By: Mark B. Smith
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
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A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New Statesman A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed. To those of us in the West...
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Exit Stalin
- The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953–1991
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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