World Communism

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    • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • By: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
    • By: Richard McGregor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States....

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    • A New History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 958 ratings
    • Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

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    • The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
    • By: Paul L. Williams
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....

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    • The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR....

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 857 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
    • By: Paul Kengor
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 314 ratings
    • Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth of the bond that developed between the two....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670 ratings
    • When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences....

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    • By: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
    • Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Edited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte", this volume features an especially helpful introduction....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
    • By: Elizabeth C. Economy
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today....

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    • The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
    • By: Julia Boyd
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....

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    • A Biography: Books That Changed the World
    • By: Francis Wheen
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: Books That Changed the World
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's 20-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece....

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    • Life After Capitalism
    • By: Peter Frase
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region....

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    • The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
    • By: Joshua Muravchik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land....

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    • My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
    • By: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border....

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