Soviet Culture

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • Archaeology of a Lost World
    • By: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization....

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    • The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
    • By: Benjamin Peters
    • Narrated by: Dana Hickox
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None succeeded....

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    • The Story of War
    • By: Gregory Carleton
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed....

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    • By: Tom Rob Smith
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Series: The Child 44 Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,304 ratings
    • It is a society that is, officially, a paradise. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union is a haven for its citizens. But a murderer in on the loose....

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    • By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 was one of the defining events of the 20th century. This new federation, created to embody the ideals of communism and the notion of rule by the people, was intended to be different from any other nation in the world....

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    • The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia
    • By: Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A thrilling account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for listeners of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler....

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    • The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
    • By: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews....

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    • The MiG-25 in Combat
    • By: Mike Guardia
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the Sinai Peninsula...to the Soviet-Afghan War...to Operation Desert Storm, Foxbat Tales is the definitive operational and combat history of the MiG-25....

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    • The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
    • By: Elizabeth Wein
    • Narrated by: Amy Landon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. This is the story of Marina Raskova’s three regiments....

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    • The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Stalin had ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years before his death in 1953, just as Stalin was preparing to conduct another purge. With his death, Soviet strongman and long-time Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), became the Soviet premier....

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    • America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War
    • By: Albert Marrin
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin comes a timely examination of Red Scares in the United States, including the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten and the McCarthy era....

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    • By: Ian F. Svenonius
    • Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A new, expanded collection of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Life in the Soviet Union and Some of the Main Events on the Eastern Front Such as the Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk, and Siege of Leningrad
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • No nation suffered more losses during the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The figure most historians recognize as roughly accurate is 20 million. The exact figure is impossible to tally for a number of reasons....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1979, alarmed Soviet leaders watched the growing civil war in Afghanistan with trepidation. Russia’s neighbor had been a close ally for many years, acting as a buffer between Russia and British India....

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    • An Immigrant's Odyssey from the Soviet Army to the US War in Iraq and American Citizenship
    • By: Mahir Ibrahimov
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • Across Cultures and Empires is above all an immigrant's story. Mahir Ibrahimov's fluency in multiple languages offers the perspective of someone who found a way to successfully cross boundaries amid the fall of empire and the resulting cascade of conflicts....

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