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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 17 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Fall of the Soviet Union
    • By: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
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    • In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world....

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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • By: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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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
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    • 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: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Steve Fortune
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the Napoleonic Invasion, Reforms of Peter the Great, the Fall of the Soviet Union, and More
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Desmond Manny
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
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    • This new Captivating History audiobook serves as an overview of Russian history over the span of more than a millennium, from the foundation of the Russian state by the Viking Prince Rurik in AD 862 until the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Timothy J. Colton
    • Narrated by: Timothy Howard Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
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    • Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player....

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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    • A Study in History and Personality
    • By: Robert C. Tucker
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
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    • The first of two biographical volumes, Professor Robert C. Tucker covers Stalin's life from his first revolutionary years until the end of the 1920s....

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    • Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
    • By: Tony Wood
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
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    • It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent....

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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 1,332 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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