Bestsellers
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,345
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Performance2,903
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Story2,891
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,226
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Performance7,206
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Story7,167
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- By NH on 03-21-19
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15,494
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Performance13,995
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Story13,982
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to...
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This is an absolute "YES" as your next read/listen
- By William on 02-07-15
By: Bill Browder
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall701
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Performance623
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Story618
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...
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Best book of the decade
- By Chuck on 04-21-22
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,076
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Performance925
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Story921
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,125
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Performance963
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Story961
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...
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Stalinist Tyranny
- By Kindle Customer on 12-28-19
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,345
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Performance2,903
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Story2,891
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,226
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Performance7,206
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Story7,167
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- By NH on 03-21-19
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15,494
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Performance13,995
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Story13,982
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to...
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This is an absolute "YES" as your next read/listen
- By William on 02-07-15
By: Bill Browder
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall701
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Performance623
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Story618
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...
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Best book of the decade
- By Chuck on 04-21-22
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,076
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Performance925
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Story921
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,125
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Performance963
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Story961
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...
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Stalinist Tyranny
- By Kindle Customer on 12-28-19
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Motherland
- A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
- By: Julia Ioffe
- Narrated by: Julia Ioffe
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance105
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Story105
Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how...
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Brilliant. Just so good.
- By M on 11-07-25
By: Julia Ioffe
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Stalingrad
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Abridged
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Overall778
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Performance655
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Story652
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August...
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Audible! Pls provide Michael Tudor Barnes
- By Anand on 07-02-15
By: Antony Beevor
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,606
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Performance2,236
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Story2,223
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not...
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Loved everyone minute!
- By Elizabeth on 02-05-12
By: Robert K. Massie
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The Cold War
- A New History
- By: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,014
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Performance739
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Story734
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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WOW
- By Cordell eddings on 10-13-07
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
- By: Norman F Dixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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Story29
The indisputable classic of military history that uncovers the shortcomings of military leadership and explains why generals fail The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly...
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Great book. Should be read by Secretary of Defense!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-04-24
By: Norman F Dixon
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,009
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Performance1,786
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Story1,780
A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe...
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Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
By: Serhii Plokhy
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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- By: Helena Merriman
- Narrated by: Helena Merriman
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall849
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Performance737
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Story734
A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East...
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Gripping
- By Matthew on 09-09-21
By: Helena Merriman
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre, John le Carré
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall2,759
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Performance2,437
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Story2,423
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...
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The narrator is incorrectly identified.
- By Greenlake DD on 07-30-14
By: Ben Macintyre, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall9,100
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Performance8,039
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Story7,991
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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chilling...
- By Kindle Customer on 10-12-19
By: Rachel Maddow
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- By: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall935
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Performance791
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Story790
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
- By Nostromo on 03-23-15
By: Stephen Kotkin
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,378
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Performance1,237
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Story1,232
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and...
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Scholarly but gripping
- By William on 06-16-16
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- By: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance83
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Story83
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...
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Russia is No One's Friend
- By LA Reader on 05-06-25
By: Shaun Walker
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The CIA Book Club
- The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
- By: Charlie English
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance36
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Story36
“A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account” (The New York Times Book Review, Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War “Brimming with poetic detail, spring-loaded with...
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The historic information
- By Richard H. Garrett on 02-05-26
By: Charlie English
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- By: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,578
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Performance1,385
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Story1,377
A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
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An Unforgettable and Haunting Read
- By Jean on 02-03-16
By: William Craig
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The Spy in the Archive
- How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Story22
How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. The work goes on for decades but remains so low key, that even after your escape, no one even notices you are gone.
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Great history
- By elbpvb on 02-09-26
By: Gordon Corera
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Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall842
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Performance751
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Story749
The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her...
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The Heart, Soul & Iron Fist Of Russia
- By Sara on 02-22-17
By: Svetlana Alexievich, and others
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall471
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Performance411
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Story409
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising
By: Alexei Yurchak
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,021
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Performance2,670
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Story2,661
Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....
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Red Notice Part II —- The Empire Struck Out
- By R. Alembik on 04-16-22
By: Bill Browder
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The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- By: Antonio Mendez, Jonna Mendez
- Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,725
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Performance1,494
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Story1,490
A “devilishly fun” (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on...
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Interesting, clean, pro-CIA history
- By Alexander M Leasenby on 02-27-20
By: Antonio Mendez, and others
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The Sword and the Shield
- By: Christopher Andrew, Vasilli Mitrokhin
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 31 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall558
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Performance468
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Story465
This book reveals the most complete picture ever of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe. It is based on an extremely top secret archive which details the full extent of its worldwide network....
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Great book on the history of the KGB
- By Clydene on 05-28-12
By: Christopher Andrew, and others
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Gulag
- A History
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,051
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Performance925
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Story921
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Nice compliment to Solzhenitsyn
- By Thucydides on 08-03-17
By: Anne Applebaum
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show "A gripping and unsettling account." – Washington Post Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal...
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Stalin’s War
- A New History of World War II
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall732
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Performance627
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Story625
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when...
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Sean McMeekin Does It Again!
- By Stephen F (SPFJR) on 04-21-21
By: Sean McMeekin
New releases
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
By: Alexei Yurchak
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The Disinformation Dictionary
- Russia’s Arsenal of Lies and Propaganda in the Information War
- By: Eric Engle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Disinformation Dictionary: Russia’s Arsenal of Lies and Propaganda in the Information War arms you with the definitive guide to decoding Moscow's shadowy playbook. In an era where truth is the ultimate battlefield, Russia wages relentless information warfare against democracies. This essential reference decodes over 40 key Russian terms, concepts, and tactics—from Maskirovka (deception) and Aktivnye meropriyatiya (active measures) to Kompromat and Troll-fabrika—revealing how Putin's regime manipulates narratives, erodes trust, and exports chaos worldwide. Why This Dictionary Is ...
By: Eric Engle
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The Curse of Empire
- Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
- By: Martin Schulze Wessel, Neil Solomon - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of Russia's actions in Ukraine, argues the distinguished historian Martin Schulze Wessel, by putting them in the broader context of the history of Russian imperialism and the influence it continues to exert today.
By: Martin Schulze Wessel, and others
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A Force for Good: Gisela Warburg Wyzanski
- A Life Dedicated to the Rescue of Children
- By: Anita Wyzanski Robboy
- Narrated by: Maria McCann, Ana Clemens, Elliot Schiff, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.
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Gisela Warburg
- By Gisela R. Barry on 03-16-26
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The Five Poets
- Soviet Ocean Liners of the 1960s, Their Poetic Names, Cold War Voyages, and the Last Days of Marco Polo
- By: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Some ships pass through history almost unnoticed. They are built, they serve, they age, and they disappear, leaving behind little more than a few photographs, an entry in a register, and the faint memory of a name painted once on steel. And then some ships carry something larger than themselves. Ships that become symbols without entirely meaning to. Ships that reflect the ambitions, anxieties, and identity of the age that produced them.
By: Cyril Marlen
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The Russian Revolution
- The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power
- By: Ben Walker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power A History for Curious Minds How did one of the largest empires on earth collapse in a matter of months? And how did that collapse give rise to one of the most powerful ideological states of the twentieth century? The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power offers a clear and structured guide to one of history’s most consequential turning points. Rather than overwhelming you with dates or assuming prior expertise, this book helps you see the forces that drove events—how ...
By: Ben Walker
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
By: Alexei Yurchak
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The Disinformation Dictionary
- Russia’s Arsenal of Lies and Propaganda in the Information War
- By: Eric Engle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Disinformation Dictionary: Russia’s Arsenal of Lies and Propaganda in the Information War arms you with the definitive guide to decoding Moscow's shadowy playbook. In an era where truth is the ultimate battlefield, Russia wages relentless information warfare against democracies. This essential reference decodes over 40 key Russian terms, concepts, and tactics—from Maskirovka (deception) and Aktivnye meropriyatiya (active measures) to Kompromat and Troll-fabrika—revealing how Putin's regime manipulates narratives, erodes trust, and exports chaos worldwide. Why This Dictionary Is ...
By: Eric Engle
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The Curse of Empire
- Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
- By: Martin Schulze Wessel, Neil Solomon - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of Russia's actions in Ukraine, argues the distinguished historian Martin Schulze Wessel, by putting them in the broader context of the history of Russian imperialism and the influence it continues to exert today.
By: Martin Schulze Wessel, and others
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A Force for Good: Gisela Warburg Wyzanski
- A Life Dedicated to the Rescue of Children
- By: Anita Wyzanski Robboy
- Narrated by: Maria McCann, Ana Clemens, Elliot Schiff, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.
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Gisela Warburg
- By Gisela R. Barry on 03-16-26
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The Five Poets
- Soviet Ocean Liners of the 1960s, Their Poetic Names, Cold War Voyages, and the Last Days of Marco Polo
- By: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Some ships pass through history almost unnoticed. They are built, they serve, they age, and they disappear, leaving behind little more than a few photographs, an entry in a register, and the faint memory of a name painted once on steel. And then some ships carry something larger than themselves. Ships that become symbols without entirely meaning to. Ships that reflect the ambitions, anxieties, and identity of the age that produced them.
By: Cyril Marlen
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The Russian Revolution
- The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power
- By: Ben Walker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power A History for Curious Minds How did one of the largest empires on earth collapse in a matter of months? And how did that collapse give rise to one of the most powerful ideological states of the twentieth century? The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power offers a clear and structured guide to one of history’s most consequential turning points. Rather than overwhelming you with dates or assuming prior expertise, this book helps you see the forces that drove events—how ...
By: Ben Walker