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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • Russia's Super Mafia
    • By: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, or vory as the Russian mafia is also known....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.8 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest....

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    • Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
    • By: Rebekah Koffler
    • Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 3,280 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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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 173 ratings
    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK
    • By: John Newman
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry....

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    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 761 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

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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 1,355 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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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • Celebrated historian Orlando Figes presents a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 691 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan....

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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
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,091 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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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Series: The Gulag Archipelago, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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    • 9th Edition
    • By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.

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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
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,240 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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    • In His Own Words
    • By: Alex Moore
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From revolutionary to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders and perhaps its most enduring....

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    • A New History of Soviet Intelligence
    • By: Jonathan Haslam
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.1 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving military intelligence and the special service - which specialized in codes and ciphers - lurking in the shadows....

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