Historical Biographies Russia

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,168 ratings
    • A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....

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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: 25-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....

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    • The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Donnie Eichar
    • Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....

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    • The Lives of Guy Burgess
    • By: Andrew Lownie
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this definitive biography, Andrew Lownie uncovers the true depths of Burgess' penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service....

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    • The Enigma of Donald Maclean
    • By: Roland Philipps
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A gripping tale of betrayal and counterbetrayal that tells the story of the most enigmatic member of the Cambridge spy ring - Donald Maclean....

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    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

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    • The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Prize-winning historian and biographer, Carolly Erickson has created an eminently readable biography that recognizes the humanity of Great Catherine with her majesty and immense capability....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Winner of the Costa Biography Award, 2007.
      Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet....

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    • The Biography
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil....

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    • Power, Love and the Russian Empire
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 27 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler.

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    • The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
    • By: Simon Shuster
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal....

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    • Viking Warriors Including Rollo, Norsemen, Norse Mythology, Quests in America, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Russia
    • By: Noah Brown
    • Narrated by: Dalan E. Decker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary warrior who left a legacy among the Vikings like none other. Today's popular TV show may have popularized Ragnar's story, but the real facts are not very well known. Discover the truth behind this Viking warrior and the rich history of the Vikings....

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: John Nettles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground....

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    • Stalin's Last American Spy
    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2016
    • Language: English
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    • This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism....

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    • A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir - the author's riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end....

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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: 18-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
    • By: Gregory J. Wallance
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent....

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