Soviet Biographies

Product List
    • 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 175 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....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • By: Cliff Stoll
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,662 ratings
    • Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper
    • By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, David Foreman, Martin Pelger, Alla Igorevna Begunova
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2,000 female snipers....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world....

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $24.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.75 or 1 credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: $29.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.25 or 1 credit

    • 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 1,315 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....

    Regular price: $29.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.25 or 1 credit

    • Space, Science, American Ambition, and Soviet Chaos at the Cold War’s End
    • By: Barry L. Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR.

    Regular price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    • A Memoir of Food and Longing
    • By: Anya von Bremzen
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations...

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • 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 2,130 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....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
    • By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
    • Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

    Regular price: $30.41 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.41 or 1 credit

    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

    Regular price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    • A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,778 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the agency's Moscow station....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • By: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Philip Short’s comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years, gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.

    Regular price: $33.74 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $33.74 or 1 credit

    • The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
    • By: George Crile
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267 ratings
    • Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....

    Regular price: $24.52 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.52 or 1 credit

    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

    Regular price: $24.92 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.92 or 1 credit

    • A True Story of the Cold War
    • By: Giles Whittell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Janet Wallach tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
    • By: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel
    • Narrated by: Jim McCance
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit