Soviet Empire

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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 260 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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    • The Final Days of the Soviet Union
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president....

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    • The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    • By: David Remnick
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Empire
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • Revolution 1989 by British journalist Victor Sebestyen is a comprehensive and revealing account of those dizzying days that toppled Soviet tyranny and changed the World....

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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 11 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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    • Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 846 ratings
    • In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today....

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    • The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism....

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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
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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 Russian Revolution and Civil War, Lenin the Bolsheviks, and Stalin
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this book, listeners will gain an understanding of the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the decline of the Russian Empire, and how these events shaped Russia's future....

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    • An Immigrant's Odyssey from the Soviet Army to the US War in Iraq and American Citizenship
    • By: Mahir Ibrahimov
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • Across Cultures and Empires is above all an immigrant's story. Mahir Ibrahimov's fluency in multiple languages offers the perspective of someone who found a way to successfully cross boundaries amid the fall of empire and the resulting cascade of conflicts....

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    • The History of the Russian Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of the Soviet Union
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bill Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The 17th century was marked by multiple pro-democratic revolutions exploding in both hemispheres. In Europe and its neighbors to the east, border-changing wars were fought incessantly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the underlying premises of political, governmental and social structures within several European and Asian states were shaken to the core....

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    • Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
    • By: Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on Earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all 11 time zones....

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