Russian Biographies

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    • Russia's Super Mafia
    • By: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, or vory as the Russian mafia is also known....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • 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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    • The Art of Counterintelligence
    • By: James M. Olson
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and also a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets....

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    • The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets
    • By: Sue Williams
    • Narrated by: Sue Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world....

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    • By: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Philip Short's magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of its enigmatic and ruthless leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putin's Russia....

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    • Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Russians Among Us describes for the first time the story of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and riveting detail, it reveals new information about today's spies as well as those trying to catch them and those trying to kill them....

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    • The Explosive Account of How Putin Poisoned Alexei Navalny
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: John Sweeney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beginning with the mystery of Alexei Navalny's murder in the Arctic Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia, the book tellss the life story of the Russian opposition leader who was a perpetual thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin.

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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 Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
    • By: Robert Baer
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Robert Baer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • For the first time ever, New York Times best-selling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a KGB mole rose to the highest ranks of the CIA....

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    • Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
    • By: Trey Brown, James R. Clapper
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence advisor for six and a half years....

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    • Leningrad 1941–42
    • By: Prit Buttar
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 14-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material, To Besiege a City is a ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges...

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    • The Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Keith McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Curt Bonnem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. During the trip, one of the skiers fell ill and returned....

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    • Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
    • By: Douglas Century
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Gregory Korostishevsky
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of our era....

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    • The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen—America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy
    • By: Lis Wiehl
    • Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades....

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    • The Fight Against Russian Aggression
    • By: Jack Devine
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Spymaster's Prism, the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security....

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    • A Life in War and Peace
    • By: Alexander Mikaberidze
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armee during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century....

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    • By: Амос Оз
    • Narrated by: Григорий Перель
    • Length: 29 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2024
    • Language: Russian
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    • Душераздирающе трагическая, невероятно смешная и беззаветно честная автобиография одного из самых знаковых писателей Израиля. Мальчик рос в...

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    • Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
    • By: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
    • Narrated by: Rob Heaps
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies....

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    • How One Determined Investigator, Seven Million Dollars - and a Death Threat by the Russian Mafia - Led to the Capture of the Most Dangerous Mole Ever Unmasked Inside U.S. Intelligence
    • By: David Wise
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Seven Million Dollar Spy reveals, for the first time, the inside story of the dramatic US counterintelligence operation that resulted in the capture of the most dangerous mole working for Russia inside US intelligence....

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    • The True Story of the Couple Who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal
    • By: David Walsh
    • Narrated by: Michael Fenner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • It was the story that shocked the world: Russian athletics was revealed to be corrupt from top to bottom, with institutionalised doping used to help the nation's athletes win medals they did not deserve. But the full story of the couple who blew the whistle has never been told. Until now....

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