Best Sellers
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A People’s Tragedy
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 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....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....
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unputdownable!
- By Devika Jayakumari on 12-04-20
Written by: David Remnick
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
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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 Applebaum....
Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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Stalin
- Passage to Revolution
- Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution, an often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators....
Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
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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....
Written by: Leon Trotsky
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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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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....
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unputdownable!
- By Devika Jayakumari on 12-04-20
Written by: David Remnick
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Applebaum....
Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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Stalin
- Passage to Revolution
- Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution, an often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators....
Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
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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....
Written by: Leon Trotsky
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Gripping narrative of Gulag
- By RAJA MUKHERJEA on 05-12-20
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
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Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front....
Written by: David Stahel
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Stalin's War
- A New History of World War II
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
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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....
Written by: Sean McMeekin
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924....
Written by: Vladimir Lenin
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Written by: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Great book
- By Shivankar on 08-05-24
Written by: Robert K. Massie
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- Written by: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....
Written by: Milton Bearden,
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Putinomics
- Money and Power in Resurgent Russia
- Written by: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Putinomics, Chris Miller examines the making of Russian economic policy since Vladimir Putin took power in 1999....
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Putin's challenges
- By Nitin Jain on 11-04-24
Written by: Chris Miller
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The Spy Who Changed History
- The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Stole America's Top Secrets
- Written by: Svetlana Lokhova
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation, piecing together every aspect of Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives....
Written by: Svetlana Lokhova
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Written by: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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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....
Written by: Donnie Eichar
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 45 hrs and 9 mins
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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....
Written by: Yuri Slezkine,
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One Minute to Midnight
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- Written by: Michael Dobbs
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....
Written by: Michael Dobbs
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Written by: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....
Written by: David Hoffman
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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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....
Written by: Serhii Plokhy
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The Battle for Moscow
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter.
Written by: David Stahel
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The Russian Revolution
- Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Steve Fortune
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....
Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick
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KGB
- Written by: Eric Frattini
- Narrated by: Arturo Lopez
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Durante más de medio siglo y hasta su abolición en 1991, el Comité para la Seguridad del Estado (KGB), conocido también en el mundo del espionaje...
Written by: Eric Frattini
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Disinformation
- Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism
- Written by: Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again....
Written by: Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak,
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Stalingrad
- Written by: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy....
Written by: David M. Glantz,
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Written by: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike....
Written by: Laurence Rees
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All the Kremlin's Men
- Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
- Written by: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
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All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia....
Written by: Mikhail Zygar
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- Written by: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
Written by: William Craig
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- Written by: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine....
Written by: Mark Galeotti
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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....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Ten Days That Shook the World
- Written by: John Reed
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's phenomenal firsthand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917....
Written by: John Reed
New Releases
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Открывая СССР
- Written by: Алекс Громов
- Narrated by: Сергей Соколов
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Обширный калейдоскоп парадоксальных явлений советской жизни от повседневности до высших эшелонов — в первой книге новой серии известного историка. Искренний порыв первого субботника был доведён до абсурда, когда по мемуарам в итоге оказалось, что знаменитое ленинское бревно на субботнике в Кремле вместе с вождём тащили 800 человек. Школы и институты в СССР вовсе не были бесплатными. От Олимпиады с трогательным Мишкой-талисманом советские руководители вообще хотели отказаться, но не успели.
Written by: Алекс Громов
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Der Gulag
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Julian Mehne
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Ein brutales Vermächtnis der Sowjetunion: Er zählt zu den dunkelsten Kapiteln der Geschichte der Sowjetunion: der Gulag, jenes weit verzweigte, zentral gesteuerte und in seinem Umfang bis dahin beispiellose System zur Ausbeutung von Zwangsarbeit. Wie entwickelte er sich aus dem Chaos der Revolutionszeit? Welche Bedeutung hatten Zwangsarbeit und Gulag für das sowjetische System? Wie gestaltete sich das Leben in den Lagern? Diesen Fragen geht die renommierte amerikanische Journalistin Anne Applebaum in diesem Hörbuch nach.
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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Запад против Москвы. От Ивана Великого до Ивана Грозного
- Written by: Константин Кусмауль
- Narrated by: Динар Валиев
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Геополитика России родилась в конце далекого XV века. Как только на карте мира появилось Московское централизованное государство, оно сразу же стало объектом интриг и провокаций Запада. Стремление Габсбургов, папского престола, Англии, Польши, Швеции, Дании и других стран «коллективного Запада» контролировать ресурсы Московской Руси, затащить её в странный антитурецкий союз, насильно окатоличить и банально запереть в кольце первых в нашей истории санкций натолкнулось на возрастающую мудрость первых русских самодержцев и молодой московской дипломатии. На страницах книги Запад против Москвы.
Written by: Константин Кусмауль
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Rusia mea
- Perspectiva unui scriitor autoexilat în Occident
- Written by: Mihail Șișkin, Adriana Dănilă - Traducător
- Narrated by: Alexandru Mike Gheorghiu
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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În acest eseu de o impresionantă luciditate, Mihail Șișkin demontează mitul conform căruia Rusia este o „enigmă învăluită într-un mister" și susține că pur și simplu nu știm suficiente lucruri despre ea. Așadar, care este adevărata poveste din spatele regimului autocratic al lui Putin și al invaziei sale în Ucraina? Șișkin urmărește rădăcinile problemelor Rusiei, pornind de la „Rutenia (Rusia Kieveană)", trecând prin Marele Ducat al Moscovei, imperiu, revoluție și Războiul Rece, până la Federația Rusă creată acum mai bine de treizeci de ani.
Written by: Mihail Șișkin,
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- Written by: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.
Written by: Gordon Corera
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Two Minutes to Midnight
- 1953 - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Written by: Roger Hermiston
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history, the Cold War enters its deadliest phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities have turned hot on the Korean peninsula as the United States and Soviet Union clash in an intractable and bloody proxy war. An ageing Winston Churchill yearns for peace with the Kremlin - but new American President Dwight Eisenhower cautions the West not to drop its guard.
Written by: Roger Hermiston
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Открывая СССР
- Written by: Алекс Громов
- Narrated by: Сергей Соколов
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Обширный калейдоскоп парадоксальных явлений советской жизни от повседневности до высших эшелонов — в первой книге новой серии известного историка. Искренний порыв первого субботника был доведён до абсурда, когда по мемуарам в итоге оказалось, что знаменитое ленинское бревно на субботнике в Кремле вместе с вождём тащили 800 человек. Школы и институты в СССР вовсе не были бесплатными. От Олимпиады с трогательным Мишкой-талисманом советские руководители вообще хотели отказаться, но не успели.
Written by: Алекс Громов
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Der Gulag
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Julian Mehne
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Ein brutales Vermächtnis der Sowjetunion: Er zählt zu den dunkelsten Kapiteln der Geschichte der Sowjetunion: der Gulag, jenes weit verzweigte, zentral gesteuerte und in seinem Umfang bis dahin beispiellose System zur Ausbeutung von Zwangsarbeit. Wie entwickelte er sich aus dem Chaos der Revolutionszeit? Welche Bedeutung hatten Zwangsarbeit und Gulag für das sowjetische System? Wie gestaltete sich das Leben in den Lagern? Diesen Fragen geht die renommierte amerikanische Journalistin Anne Applebaum in diesem Hörbuch nach.
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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Запад против Москвы. От Ивана Великого до Ивана Грозного
- Written by: Константин Кусмауль
- Narrated by: Динар Валиев
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Геополитика России родилась в конце далекого XV века. Как только на карте мира появилось Московское централизованное государство, оно сразу же стало объектом интриг и провокаций Запада. Стремление Габсбургов, папского престола, Англии, Польши, Швеции, Дании и других стран «коллективного Запада» контролировать ресурсы Московской Руси, затащить её в странный антитурецкий союз, насильно окатоличить и банально запереть в кольце первых в нашей истории санкций натолкнулось на возрастающую мудрость первых русских самодержцев и молодой московской дипломатии. На страницах книги Запад против Москвы.
Written by: Константин Кусмауль
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Rusia mea
- Perspectiva unui scriitor autoexilat în Occident
- Written by: Mihail Șișkin, Adriana Dănilă - Traducător
- Narrated by: Alexandru Mike Gheorghiu
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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În acest eseu de o impresionantă luciditate, Mihail Șișkin demontează mitul conform căruia Rusia este o „enigmă învăluită într-un mister" și susține că pur și simplu nu știm suficiente lucruri despre ea. Așadar, care este adevărata poveste din spatele regimului autocratic al lui Putin și al invaziei sale în Ucraina? Șișkin urmărește rădăcinile problemelor Rusiei, pornind de la „Rutenia (Rusia Kieveană)", trecând prin Marele Ducat al Moscovei, imperiu, revoluție și Războiul Rece, până la Federația Rusă creată acum mai bine de treizeci de ani.
Written by: Mihail Șișkin,
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- Written by: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.
Written by: Gordon Corera
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Two Minutes to Midnight
- 1953 - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Written by: Roger Hermiston
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history, the Cold War enters its deadliest phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities have turned hot on the Korean peninsula as the United States and Soviet Union clash in an intractable and bloody proxy war. An ageing Winston Churchill yearns for peace with the Kremlin - but new American President Dwight Eisenhower cautions the West not to drop its guard.
Written by: Roger Hermiston
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The Prophet
- The Life of Leon Trotsky
- Written by: Isaac Deutscher
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 62 hrs and 43 mins
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Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher's magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin's propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene.
Written by: Isaac Deutscher
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Zero Sum
- The Arc of International Business in Russia
- Written by: Charles Hecker
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Zero Sum brings to life the complex, vivid color of one of the greatest experiments in the history of global commerce. What have businesses learnt—or failed to learn—from this adventure, both about Russia and about dynamics between countries and companies in the face of relentless change?
Written by: Charles Hecker
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Бабье царство
- Written by: Эдвард Радзинский
- Narrated by: Александр Клюквин
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
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"Это был воистину русский парадокс. В стране домостроя, где многочисленные народные пословицы довольно искренне описывают положение женщины - "Курица не птица, баба не человек", "Кому воду носить? Бабе! Кому битой бить? Бабе! За что? За то, что баба" - весь XVIII век русским государством самодержавно правили пять выдающихся и очень разных правительниц. Например, Елизавета, дочь Петра Первого. "Государственными делами она почти не интересовалась", - приходят к единодушному выводу историки и современники. Чем же она занималась 20 лет на троне? Была, например, верховным главнокомандующим.
Written by: Эдвард Радзинский
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Putin's Sledgehammer
- The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos
- Written by: Candace Rondeaux
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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In June 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow. The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler. Wagner’s power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion, until it was so great it exposed the weakness of Russia’s conventional military and became a threat to the Russian state, one that was not demonstrably eliminated until a private jet containing Wagner’s core commanders was blown up in midair.
Written by: Candace Rondeaux
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Le jeune Staline
- Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jean-François Sené - traducteur
- Narrated by: Mathieu Buscatto
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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Comment Staline est-il devenu Staline? Issu d'un milieu populaire, le jeune Joseph Staline est un homme curieux, séducteur et déjà attiré par le pouvoir. Un temps poète, passé par le séminaire, il trouve finalement sa voie dans le banditisme, le terrorisme, et finalement l'action révolutionnaire, qui le mènera, des années plus tard, à la tête de l'URSS.
Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore,
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West
- Written by: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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The Illegals captures the untold history of Russia's deep cover spy programme, following its evolution from the talented "great Illegals" of the 1920s and '30s up to the 21st century, when agents maintained their fake identities and loyalties even after the fall of the Soviet Union. Through hundreds of interviews and access to never-before- seen archives, Shaun Walker exposes the colourful history of the KGB's most secretive espionage project.
Written by: Shaun Walker