Russian Biographies

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Alexei Navalny
    • Narrated by: Matthew Goode
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Patriot is the powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 341 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 True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
    • By: Bill Browder
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,894 ratings
    • Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....

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    • The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen—America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy
    • By: Lis Wiehl
    • Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades....

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    • Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family....

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    • The Art of Counterintelligence
    • By: James M. Olson
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and also a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets....

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    • The Authorized Biography of Alexandra Romanov
    • By: Sophie Buxhoeveden
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Empress Alexandra Romanov – the last empress of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and now a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church – chose ...

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    • Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Christopher Steele
    • Narrated by: Christopher Steele
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in this book for the first time.

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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 1,001 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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    • Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 836 ratings
    • With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present....

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    • Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard....

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    • A Life in War and Peace
    • By: Alexander Mikaberidze
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armee during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century....

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    • How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway....

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    • George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
    • By: Gregory J. Wallance
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent....

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union....

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    • The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass
    • By: Svetlana Oss
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Nine wholesome university students mountaineering in the Urals go missing, and are later uncovered from the snows of a bleak forest's edge in the Siberian Taiga, in a series of grisly discoveries....

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    • The Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Keith McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. During the trip, one of the skiers fell ill and returned....

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    • The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
    • By: Oliver Bullough
    • Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world....

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    • The Fight Against Russian Aggression
    • By: Jack Devine
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In Spymaster's Prism, the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security....

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    • The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Self-Taught Double Agent
    • By: Naveed Jamali, Ellis Henican
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • The fascinating story of a young American amateur who helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in New York - sold in 10 countries and in a major deal with 20th Century Fox....

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