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    • A New History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 986 ratings
    • Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-15-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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.

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    • By: Francis Spufford
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • A Child and a Country at the End of History
    • By: Lea Ypi
    • Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party....

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    • The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • By the best-selling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of US national unity was created and fought over in the 19th century - a myth that continues to affect us today....

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    • The Final Days of the Soviet Union
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president....

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    • Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
    • By: Oscar Jonsson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. What Jonsson reveals is that Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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    • Religion, Politics, and Strategy
    • By: Dmitry Adamsky
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity....

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    • How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
    • By: Alexander Vindman
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Alexander Vindman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A bestselling national security expert delivers a chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism—with catastrophic consequences.

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,039 ratings
    • In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Timothy J. Colton
    • Narrated by: Timothy Howard Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player....

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    • The Economist
    • By: Dick Leonard
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Series: The Economist
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • From its original six members (who formed the European Economic Community in 1957) what became the European Union had grown to 27 members in 2007, with several more candidates for membership standing in the wings....

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    • The Cold War and the Rule of Law
    • By: Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964....

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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,199 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • 1613-1918
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Simon Beale
    • Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,332 ratings
    • This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....

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    • Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Jane McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....

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    • A Study in History and Personality
    • By: Robert C. Tucker
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The first of two biographical volumes, Professor Robert C. Tucker covers Stalin's life from his first revolutionary years until the end of the 1920s....

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