Soviet Space Program

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    • How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
    • By: John Strausbaugh
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • John Strausbaugh takes us behind the Iron Curtain in this witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program....

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    • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
    • By: Stephen Walker
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • April 12, 1961. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history....

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    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

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    • By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 31 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • To pass through Soviet censors, many scenes were cut or altered before this masterpiece was published in a hastily translated English edition. With the help of the author's translator, here for the first time is the complete English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic....

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    • By: Robert Hornsby
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....

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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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    • Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
    • By: Erika Fatland
    • Narrated by: Jill Rolls
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world....

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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Cold War Competition Between the United States and Soviet Union to Reach the Moon
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Cold War is usually thought of in terms of fear, potential nuclear war, and espionage. While these were elements of the years between the end of World War II and the 1990s, the competition between the US and the USSR had some real benefits....

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    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Space Race tells the captivating story of one of the most defining periods in human history—a battle for supremacy between the United States ...

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    • By: Zach Powers
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to Earth....

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    • By: Jed Mercurio
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Fascinated with the secrets still surrounding the Soviet Union's race against the Americans to put a man on the Moon, Jed Mercurio proposes a compelling scenario....

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