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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- De: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 29 h y 50 m
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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative biography of Mao ever written.
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
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Lenin
- The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Aris
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Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's unique biography - the first in English in nearly two decades - is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century but a portrait of Lenin the man. Unexpectedly, Lenin was someone who loved nature, hunting, and fishing and could identify hundreds of species of plants, a despotic ruler whose closest ties and friendships were with women.
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Lenin totally took an extra piece of that cake.
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De: Victor Sebestyen
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Gulag
- A History
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 27 h y 41 m
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Nice compliment to Solzhenitsyn
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
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Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted.
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
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War and Genocide
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- De: Doris L. Bergen
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In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Roma, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the disabled, and other groups deemed undesirable.
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Agency - the capacity or state of exerting power
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Operation Nemesis
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In 1921 a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named their operation Nemesis after the Greek goddess of retribution. Over several years the men tracked down and assassinated former Turkish leaders. The story of this secret operation has never been fully told until now.
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Avenging Turkish Denial with Reason
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Where the Jews Aren't
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there.
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
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One Long Night
- A Global History of Concentration Camps
- De: Andrea Pitzer
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For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the 21st century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again".
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Important subject. Horrible narration.
- De wmorrison en 07-04-19
De: Andrea Pitzer
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The German War
- A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945; Citizens and Soldiers
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As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years? In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials - personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence - to answer this question. He offers an unprecedented portrait of wartime Germany, bringing the hopes and expectations of the German people to vivid life.
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Great read for history buffs
- De marykk en 05-12-16
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A Thousand Hills
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Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.
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Best Most Comprehensive Work on Rwanda
- De Greg en 07-30-10
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Scientific developments radically alter our understanding of the world. Whether it's technology, climate change, health research, or the latest revelations of neuroscience, physics, or psychology, science has, as Edge editor John Brockman says, "become a big story, if not the big story". In that spirit this new addition to Edge.org's fascinating series asks a powerful and provocative question: What do you consider the most interesting and important recent scientific news?
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Red Famine
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- Kathryn
- 11-21-17
Shocking inhumanity
Well researched and easy to follow. The evils of Stalin and Soviet Russia are detailed in this focused looked at the Stalin-caused Ukraine famine of 1930 to 1931.
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- Black Knight
- 12-25-18
The USSR or Russia, it means the same thing: Evil
Whether you call it the USSR or Russia, it means the same thing: Evil. General Patton was correct. We should have armed the German military and turned on the USSR. With our 4 engine long range bombers we could have taken Moscow and destroyed the communists once and for all. If you read this book you'll know why I feel that way. Excellent book.
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- Frank D. V.
- 02-11-20
Essential for Understanding Communism/Marxism
This is a vitally important historical book. It is an in depth look at the ferocity and evil of communism, and particularly Stalin's reign in the Soviet Union and how it specifically and directly affected the Ukraine. It goes into detail the horrors and anguish of what starvation does to the body and mind. It also painstakingly depicts the tactics used by the Communists to turn countryman against countryman and have them do their murderous bidding.
An uncomfortably detailed description of just one chapter in the history of the most evil ideology in the history of mankind and the absolute destruction it left in it's wake.
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- Brandon
- 04-26-22
Overall great
Well being in an AP European studies class where Eastern Europe was barely touched this was very captivating to learn about the affects of communism on another front. Also even though the narrator is monotone the pronunciation of the foreign words and names sounds really spot on. Overall it was very informational and is a good read to both read on and off or on a total binge
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- Carey
- 02-06-18
Well researched and presented
I have read a lot of holomodor research books and find this one to be excellent thorough and well referenced. I would unhesitatingly recommend it to anyone who want more information on this period in Ukrainian history.
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- gpeier
- 12-10-22
Highly informative
Well written. Quickly caught me up on a part of history I was unfamiliar with. Well narrated. Highly recommended and highly relevant considering the Ukraine War.
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- Bart
- 12-06-22
A Light on Red Blight
Great coverage of a history I knew so little about. It helped me understand how such a thing could be carried out and the freedoms needed to prevent it.
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- Lena
- 02-09-18
A thorough view into Stalin's regime in Ukraine
Anne Applebaum’s book Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine gives a thorough view into a very tragic moment in the history of Ukraine and its people. The story of famine in Ukraine is presented in this book in the context of historical events that took place during 1917-1930th. Without understanding of what was happening in Ukraine in the post-revolutionary and during the civil war years in the beginning of the 20 century, the whole account of the man-made famine, deliberately aiming to destroy one nation or one class of a nation (the peasants), would be hard to believe. Applebaum made this story to speak for itself by bringing to the light archive materials, personal stories and pictures that undeniably prove the existence of the state-created and successfully executed by the communist regime famine in Ukraine that still hunts the country down in present time.
Destruction of the national political elite (arrests and killing of the national leaders), removal of the active peasants (“dekulakization" and massive deportations of Ukrainians from their land) created the political vacuum in towns and subdued the rather stubborn national movement in the countryside. Banning the Ukrainian language, literature, music, cultural and spiritual rites and customs (churches, holidays, social structure in villages, council of the elderly) effectively depressed the national identity of Ukrainians. Destruction of the established free market system, collectivization and following confiscation of the land, machinery and livestock, removal of grain (prodrazverstka) and the ultimate removal of all grain and food (preserved as a seed or for the personal consumption) led to the catastrophic events in 1932-1933. All of that can be associated with the humanitarian crisis deliberately created in order to subdue the once proud and free willing people into slavery and obedience to the regime. As a result, people started to distrust the state and the fellow villagers, became indifferent and mostly hostile to the collective farms that in turn caused the diminishing production of grain and other farm products. The deepest human vices were unleashed: impunity of the members of the ruling party started to flourish, killing fellow villagers in order to obtain their possessions or even some food, became new norm. In the once rich and prosperous land, diseases and starvation spread rapidly leading to death of both the weak and strong.
As a child of the soviet time, I was raised on the beliefs about the internal and external enemies of the Soviet motherland that we had to uncover and fight by any means. Total propaganda... My grandparents, who survived to see me grow, were reluctant to tell me anything about that time. But I always sensed some distrust and even fear to the state or to strangers. Either during family gatherings or while listening people talk at a store on a countryside or in a farm (kolkhoz), one would never speak openly about any complains or injustice in the society.
The Red Famine book, though in a highly emotional tone, helped me to place that tragic period of time deep in my heart. It helped me to understand what circumstances shaped the people who were born in the early 20th and late 30th of the 20th century. Now I deeply regret I haven't asked enough questions to the survivors of the holodomor. Once you’ve read about the Stalin created famine in Ukraine, this part of the human history could not be forgotten or ignored.
I hope this book is translated to both Ukrainian and Russian language. It would be a great addition to the already existed score of this events.
A political anecdote from the 1980s:
A grain collection officer: the people of Ukraine are crying that there is no more food left.
Stalin: if they cry, they still have some left to part with. Proceed as I said until they start to laugh.
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- mkaties
- 06-09-21
The Holodomor was Awful
If you have never heard of word Holodomor, stop reading this review right now and browse a couple of articles. It is the worst genocide that most people didn't know happened, for reasons outlined in the book. This book is not a fun read, in fact some of it will probably give me actual nightmares, but it is necessary to understanding the true evil that was the Soviet Union. Pair this with the Gulag Archipelago and you will see why the citchey teens wearing the sickle and hammer are every bit as awful as those who wear swastikas.
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- Nicole B.
- 05-15-22
a must listen/read for everything
if you want to know more about current events all you have to do is learn about the past. this was very eye opening.
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