Soviet Union Memoir

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    • A Memoir and a Reckoning
    • By: Alex Halberstadt
    • Narrated by: Alex Halberstadt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement....

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    • 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 2,158 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....

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    • 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 179 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....

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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 1,324 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,021 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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    • 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 45 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.

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    • 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 4,271 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....

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    • 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 3,794 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....

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    • The Cold War and the Rule of Law
    • By: Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964....

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    • 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 127 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.

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    • Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
    • By: Simon Shuster
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access....

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    • Wealth and Power in the New Russia
    • By: David Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

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    • The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
    • By: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Masha Gessen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 664 ratings
    • The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest....

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    • How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
    • By: Craig Unger
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 456 ratings
    • This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. From Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine....

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    • 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....

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    • A Memoir of My Life Journey
    • By: Lara Gelya
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Camel from Kyzylkum is an award-winning memoir about the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of immigrating from the Soviet Union in the ...

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