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The Biography of Vladimir Putin
- The Ruthless Dictator of Russia – and Analysis of His War with Ukraine
- Narrado por: Kevin Kollins
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Peer into the fascinating real story of former KGB operative and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A hero to some, a villain to others, Vladimir Putin has left a mark on world politics and Russian history that will never be erased. Examining the secretive life behind the infamous Russian dictator, this fascinating biography recounts the life and history of Russia’s most powerful man. Delving into the surprising origins behind the Putin family and their long ties to the upper echelons of Russian society, listeners will uncover Vladimir’s enigmatic life as a spy and KGB operative, his campaign to seize the Kremlin, and his iron-fisted rule over Mother Russia.
With key insights concerning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the tumultuous relationship that Russia has shared with Western powers over much of the 21st century, The Biography of Vladimir Putin offers listeners a comprehensive and factual account of the geopolitical tensions and possible hidden motives that sparked the devastating conflict.
As a must-listen for anybody who wants to become more politically informed and develop a broader understanding of the man at the reigns of Russia, this biography blends gripping prose with real-life testimonies and accounts to provide listeners with an eye-opening exploration into the psychology of a power-driven dictator.
Are you ready to discover the true story behind Putin? Then start listening today!
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- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two biggest post-war American conflicts, the Korean and Vietnam wars, were not, as has been frequently claimed, about stopping Soviet aggression or even influence. And now the specter of a Russian Menace has been raised again in the wake of Donald Trump's victory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Listen!
- De Mark Andreadis en 12-29-17
De: Dan Kovalik Esq.
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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- De: Garry Kasparov
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 981
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 879
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A polemic against Putin
- De David en 05-27-16
De: Garry Kasparov
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Anatomy of Terror
- From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
- De: Ali Soufan
- Narrado por: Aaron Abano
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
In Anatomy of Terror, former FBI special agent and New York Times best-selling author Ali Soufan dissects bin Laden's brand of jihadi terrorism and its major offshoots, revealing how these organizations were formed, how they operate, their strengths, and - crucially - their weaknesses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What every human on the planet needs to know!
- De drkraver en 05-24-17
De: Ali Soufan
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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
- De: Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
- Narrado por: Fergus Nicoll
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists. Yassin-Kassab and Al-Shami expertly interweave these stories with an incisive analysis of the militarization of the uprising, the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of Syria’s government in exacerbating the brutalization of the conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitive Account of the Syrian Revolution
- De Theo Horesh en 06-07-18
De: Robin Yassin-Kassab, y otros
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Descent into Chaos
- The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Rashid examines Central Asia, and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe, to see how the promised nation building in the region has progressed. His conclusions are devastating.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Useful!
- De John Robert BEHRMAN en 02-24-09
De: Ahmed Rashid
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The New Nobility
- The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
- De: Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogin
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little difficult to follow
- De Jairus en 12-10-10
De: Andrei Soldatov, y otros
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ISIS
- Inside the Army of Terror
- De: Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 998
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 875
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 870
Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dunce Hat, Please...
- De Mel en 02-16-16
De: Michael Weiss, y otros
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Pakistan on the Brink
- The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
What are the possibilities—and hazards—facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are America’s choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid—Pakistan’s preeminent journalist—takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very Long NPR-like Interview and History Lesson
- De Harry Zimmer en 04-23-12
De: Ahmed Rashid
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- De: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,041
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,789
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- De A. M. en 03-07-16
De: Steven Lee Myers
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The Cage
- The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
- De: Gordon Weiss
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
In the closing days of the 30-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to UN estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand spit, dubbed "The Cage". Gordon Weiss, a journalist and UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka during the final years of the war, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, The Cage is a harrowing portrait of an island paradise torn apart by war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragic and sobering
- De Tarindu en 10-28-15
De: Gordon Weiss
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent historical compilation, poor framing
- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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A Problem From Hell
- America and the Age of Genocide
- De: Samantha Power
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 22 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 318
In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power - a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow “never again” repeatedly fail to stop genocide?
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2 out of 5 stars
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A dark lesson in dramatic irony
- De Andrew Palmer en 10-04-17
De: Samantha Power
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Radicalized
- New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
- De: Peter R. Neumann, Alexander Starritt - translator
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations base for a new generation of jihadis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Drink every time he says “milieu”
- De Anonymous User en 12-31-21
De: Peter R. Neumann, y otros
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Bibi
- De: Anshel Pfeffer
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli prime minister outside of David Ben Gurion. But Bibi, as he is known by friend and foe alike, is no stranger to controversy. For many in Israel and elsewhere, he is an embarrassment, a threat to democracy, even a precursor to Donald Trump. He nevertheless continues to dominate Israeli public life - and he may yet survive his current crises, the most challenging of his career.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very biased.
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-22
De: Anshel Pfeffer
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Muqtada
- Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq
- De: Patrick Cockburn
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Whatever else the United States intended when it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it was not to hand the country over to a 32-year-old militant cleric who fought against the U.S. presence from the start and was described by former Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer III as a "Bolshevik Islamist".
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5 out of 5 stars
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truth in an era of lies
- De NF ironman en 11-29-17
De: Patrick Cockburn
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Most Comprehensive Work on Rwanda
- De Greg en 07-30-10
De: Stephen Kinzer
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A Savage Order
- How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
- De: Rachel Kleinfeld
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
From Georgia to Colombia to Ghana and Italy - crime exists in every democratic nation on earth, but in some places, it runs rampant, shaping all aspects of civic life. A Savage Order investigates why and how some places, riddled by inept government and states, are able to recover. Drawing on fifteen years of both academic and firsthand field research, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld documents the unambiguous measures that societies have taken to empower the strong civic movements, governments, and institutions that protect countries and mitigate atrocities that damage people's lives.
De: Rachel Kleinfeld