Stalin

This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan, state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan's story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power....

In 1941, with the dark star of Nazi conquest in the ascendant over Europe, Adolf Hitler continued seeking fresh ways to expand the Third Reich's domains....

When Russian soldiers invade Eastern Europe during WWII, they ravage the countryside and terrorize the people....

In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency....

Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party regime that governed by plurality, Joseph Stalin became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. To eradicate those regarded as "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the "Great Purge" from 1934 to 1939....

Among the leaders of the 20th century, arguably none shaped the course of history as much as Vladimir Lenin....

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War....

Timothy Snyder argues that previous accounts of World War II have kept Nazi and Soviet crimes unduly separate, with much more attention paid to Adolf Hitler's atrocities than Joseph Stalin's....

This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ himself....

Separated by vast gulfs of political and philosophical divergence, the three Allied nations of World War II attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences....

Stalin’s Russia, 1950. Brilliant young artist Pasha Kalmenov is arrested and sent without trial to a forced-labor camp in the Arctic gulag. This is a camp like no other....

Joseph Stalin rose from humble roots to become the greatest madman of the 20th century. His disregard for human life dwarfs Hitler's, as does the scale of his crimes....

Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured dehumanizing conditions....

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation....

This is a short biography of Joseph Stalin, powered by AI. The audiobook delves into the early life and rise to power of Stalin, and describes the influence he exerted in the Soviet Union....

In "The Cellblock Conclave: World Leaders Unleashed," listeners are taken on a hilarious and satirical journey into the world of politics, power, and absurdity. The story revolves around four of the world's most influential leaders during WWII who find themselves incarcerated in the same jail cell.

1941. Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa, taking the German forces to the outskirts of Moscow. Fearful of Lenin’s mausoleum falling into enemy hands, Stalin orders Lenin to be moved a 1,000 miles behind the Urals....

Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets on which the fate of nations hang in the balance. Reality is generally rather more mundane as spies often gather low-level intelligence that only makes sense when it is examined by analysts...

Partly out of dire circumstances and partly from a cultural worldview, it was the Soviet Union who first pressed female pilots into direct combat when Hitler invaded Russia....

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, three million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans....