Soviet Space

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    • How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
    • By: John Strausbaugh
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • John Strausbaugh takes us behind the Iron Curtain in this witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science....

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    • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
    • By: Stephen Walker
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • April 12, 1961. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 999 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program....

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    • By: Robert Hornsby
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....

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    • By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 31 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
    • To pass through Soviet censors, many scenes were cut or altered before this masterpiece was published in a hastily translated English edition. With the help of the author's translator, here for the first time is the complete English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic....

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    • America's Eyes Above the Iron Curtain
    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Spies in the Sky: America's Eyes Above the Iron Curtain" traces the birth and evolution of the Advanced Reconnaissance System, Weapons System 117L...

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    • Space, Science, American Ambition, and Soviet Chaos at the Cold War’s End
    • By: Barry L. Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR.

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    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Space Race tells the captivating story of one of the most defining periods in human history—a battle for supremacy between the United States ...

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    • The MiG-25 in Combat
    • By: Mike Guardia
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the Sinai Peninsula...to the Soviet-Afghan War...to Operation Desert Storm, Foxbat Tales is the definitive operational and combat history of the MiG-25....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Cold War Competition Between the United States and Soviet Union to Reach the Moon
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Cold War is usually thought of in terms of fear, potential nuclear war, and espionage. While these were elements of the years between the end of World War II and the 1990s, the competition between the US and the USSR had some real benefits....

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    • The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union - a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....

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    • By: Zach Powers
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to Earth....

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    • By: Jed Mercurio
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Fascinated with the secrets still surrounding the Soviet Union's race against the Americans to put a man on the Moon, Jed Mercurio proposes a compelling scenario....

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    • The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets
    • By: Svetlana Lokhova
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation....

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