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Wolf Messing
- The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic
- By: Tatiana Lungin, Cynthia Rosenberger - translator, John Glad - translator
- Narrated by: Nora Broz
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic by Tatiana Lungin is the first comprehensive biography of the renowned psychic Wolf Messing. This fascinating memoir recounts Messing’s rise to fame in Europe, his escape from Nazi persecution, and his incredible career in the USSR, where he became a psychic sensation even under Stalin’s scrutiny. In this, the first biography and personal memoir of Wolf Messing to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century.
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Wolf Messing
- The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic
- Narrated by: Nora Broz
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: English
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Exit Stalin
- The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
- By: Mark B. Smith
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s ironfisted rule, the Soviet Union was at a crossroads. Would it break from the dictator’s brutal regime or continue the campaign of violence and fear? As historian Mark B. Smith shows in Exit Stalin, the answer was both. Smith tells the story of the Soviet Union from Gagarin to Gorbachev, shedding light on how a moderated ideology of Bolshevism and the practices of central planning played out in the everyday lives of Soviet citizens.
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Exit Stalin
- The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Russian Empire
- The Russian Revolution and Civil War, Lenin the Bolsheviks, and Stalin
- By: Will Forrest
- Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From learning about Lenin and the Red Army to discovering how and why Stalin rose to power and his eventual leadership during World War II and beyond, this book provides an essential look at one of the most important periods in Russian history. Listeners will be enthralled by this fascinating tale that delves into every aspect of Russia's struggles and successes.
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The Fall of the Russian Empire
- The Russian Revolution and Civil War, Lenin the Bolsheviks, and Stalin
- Narrated by: Andrew Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-10-23
- Language: English
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Secret Leviathan
- Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism
- By: Mark Harrison
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged. Mark Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Secret Leviathan
- Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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Fuel and Power
- Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin
- By: Jeronim Perović
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a key producer but also as one of the world's leading exporters of oil. Russia's transformation into a modern global power was connected to its ability to make use of its vast natural resources and produce energy in increasing quantities.
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Fuel and Power
- Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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The Bridge
- Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
- By: Thane Gustafson
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Two opposing narratives vie to explain the strategic future of Europe, one geopolitical and one economic, and both center on the same resource: natural gas. In The Bridge, Thane Gustafson, an expert on Russian oil and gas, argues that the political rivalries that capture the lion's share of media attention must be viewed alongside multiple business interests and differences in economic ideologies. With a dense network of pipelines linking Europe and Russia, natural gas serves as a bridge that unites the region through common interests.
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Insightful and balanced
- By Anonymous on 18-05-24
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The Bridge
- Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 31-07-20
- Language: English
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Untraceable
- By: Sergei Lebedev
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Untraceable is a wonderful piece of fiction rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations, especially the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. Professor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany.
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Untraceable
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Z Generation
- Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth
- By: Ian Garner
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Wartime Russia is drowning in fascist symbols. Zealous patriots attack journalists, opposition activists, and anyone suspected of betraying the motherland. Russians are urged to join the cause by hordes of online trolls and sleek videos of angry young men bellowing patriotic slogans. State television terrifies viewers with trumped up tales of anti-Russian conspiracies and genocidal yearnings. Child soldiers proudly parade across Red Square. This is Russia in the 2020s: a land of performative rage and nationalist untruth, where play-acting, pretense, and broken promises are a way of life.
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Z Generation
- Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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A War Made in Russia
- By: Sergei Medvedev, Stephen Dalziel - Translated by
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin's regime and of Russia's entire imperial history.
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A War Made in Russia
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Stalin
- The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- By: Edvard Radzinsky
- Narrated by: David McCallum
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed...
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Stalin
- The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- Narrated by: David McCallum
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-04-99
- Language: English
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The Code of Putinism
- By: Brian D. Taylor
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book examines how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also the set of emotions and habits that influence how Putin and his close allies view the world. While some observers portray Putin as either a cold-blooded pragmatist or a strident Russian nationalist, Taylor provides a more nuanced and compelling interpretation of Putin's motives and actions.
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Interesting perspective
- By Jake Suter on 22-10-18
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The Code of Putinism
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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The Russian Understanding of War
- Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
- By: Oscar Jonsson
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace.
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Critical reading
- By Stewie on 23-03-25
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The Russian Understanding of War
- Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Blowout
- 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
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2021 GRAMMY Winner for Best Spoken Word Album #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today...
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Excellent
- By LindaS on 06-10-19
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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Laboratories of Terror
- The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
- By: Lynne Viola - editor, Marc-Stephan Junge
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator.
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Laboratories of Terror
- The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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Darkness at Dawn
- The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
- By: David Satter
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking.
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Outstanding work of recent Russian history and analysis.
- By Guy A Holmes on 13-08-25
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Darkness at Dawn
- The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 28-02-23
- Language: English
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Jenseits von Putin: Russlands toxische Gesellschaft
- Russlands toxische Gesellschaft
- By: Gesine Dornblüth, Thomas Franke
- Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Als Russland am 24. Februar 2022 die Ukraine angriff, schien das großen Teilen der russischen Gesellschaft egal zu sein. Das ist nicht überraschend. Seit Jahren wird das russische Expansionsstreben davon begleitet, dass gesellschaftlich das Recht des Stärkeren gilt. Gewalt wird von vielen als...
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Jenseits von Putin: Russlands toxische Gesellschaft
- Russlands toxische Gesellschaft
- Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-03-23
- Language: German
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Der Mann ohne Gesicht
- Wladimir Putin. Eine Enthüllung
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Dana Geissler
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Das ist neu in Russland: Hunderttausende gehen gegen die gefälschten Wahlen auf die Straße. Ihr Protest richtet sich gegen den Mann, der hinter der Fassade der Demokratie das alleinige Sagen hat: Wladimir Putin. Masha Gessen entlarvt den unscheinbaren Mann ohne Gesicht als das, was er wirklich ist: ein skrupelloser Machthaber, umgeben von Korruption und Terror.
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Der Mann ohne Gesicht
- Wladimir Putin. Eine Enthüllung
- Narrated by: Dana Geissler
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-03-12
- Language: German
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Getting Russia Right
- 1st Edition
- By: Thomas Graham
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian affairs, Thomas Graham deftly traces the evolution of opposing ideas of national purpose that created an inherent tension in relations. Getting Russia Right identifies the blind spots that prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response.
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Getting Russia Right
- 1st Edition
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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Buonanotte, signor Lenin
- By: Tiziano Terzani
- Narrated by: Edoardo Siravo
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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Nell'agosto 1991, Tiziano Terzani - che già nel febbraio precedente ha potuto visitare le isole Curili e Sachalin, estremo avamposto dell'Unione Sovietica - inizia, come membro di una spedizione sovietico-cinese, un lungo viaggio sul fiume Amur per osservare da vicino la situazione del paese nelle sue zone asiatiche più periferiche.
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Buonanotte, signor Lenin
- Narrated by: Edoardo Siravo
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: Italian
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Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction
- Very Short Introductions
- By: Brian D. Taylor
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short Introduction provides a guide to understanding Russian Politics that goes beyond the headlines, offering a vivid account of the key forces driving Russian politics. It places Russia in a global context while explaining its internal political development. Several major themes run through the book, including the primacy of the state over society, the role of the so-called "West," which has represented a source of inspiration, of threat, and of competition for generations of Russians, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction
- Very Short Introductions
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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