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    • Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
    • By: Rachel Maddow
    • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,040 ratings
    • In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million....

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    • How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
    • By: Masha Gessen
    • Narrated by: Masha Gessen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059 ratings
    • Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy....

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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 3,773 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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    • Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
    • By: Stephanie Baker
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources provides an in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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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 1,313 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 995 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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    • Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 820 ratings
    • CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....

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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Celebrated historian Orlando Figes presents a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding....

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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 22 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 Story of the Russian Revolution
    • By: China Mieville
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 700 ratings
    • The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

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    • How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
    • By: Malcolm Nance, Rob Reiner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,559 ratings
    • Insightful and shocking, The Plot to Destroy Democracy puts a professional spy lens on Putin's plot and unravels it play-by-play. In the end, Malcolm Nance provides a better understanding of why Putin's efforts are a serious threat to our national security and global alliances....

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    • The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
    • By: Owen Matthews
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Journalist Owen Matthews dives deep into the war in Ukraine—from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol....

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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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    • 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 453 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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    • How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
    • By: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Russia’s epic and dramatic history told in an accessible, lively and short form, from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin via Catherine the Great, the Russian Revolution and the fall of the USSR....

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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 657 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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    • Operative in the Kremlin
    • By: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order....

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    • The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
    • By: Yaroslav Trofimov
    • Narrated by: David Furr
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines....

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