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The Apprentice
- Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
- By: Greg Miller
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the first time the truth behind the Kremlin’s attempt to put Trump in the White House, how they did it, when and why. This exclusive book uncovers the...
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The Apprentice
- Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance29
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Vladimir Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad.
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The more I read the more I wanted!
- By Scott Sibbald on 14-04-24
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Young Stalin
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...
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An Excellent Account of Young Stalin's Life
- By Strawberry on 21-09-25
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Young Stalin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Stalin in Power
- The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
- By: Robert C. Tucker
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1929, Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West.
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Exceptional
- By Jon lanģley on 01-04-22
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Stalin in Power
- The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
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lost empires
- By Paul Roberts on 13-09-20
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- Adventures in Modern Russia
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall351
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Performance308
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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.
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The aim, to own all forms of political discourse.
- By Wras on 03-04-17
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- Adventures in Modern Russia
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-03-16
- Language: English
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- By: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance62
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Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.
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Informative yet entertaining to the max
- By Callum Freeman on 06-08-25
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
- By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale-the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history's most destructive war, and worldwide geopolitical conflict, all entwined around the dream of building a better society.
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025* From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity *An Economist Book of the Year* 'An astonishing story...
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A botanical lens on WW2
- By veyza on 05-01-26
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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Blood on the Snow
- The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
- By: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. 'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' – Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich For...
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Enthralling historic journey through the social upheaval of the Bolshevik takeover
- By Neville de Souza on 07-06-25
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Blood on the Snow
- The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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The Great Gamble
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan
- By: Gregory Feifer
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance60
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During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior number with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse.
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great book - full of detail
- By Jon lanģley on 26-05-20
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The Great Gamble
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-01-09
- Language: English
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- By: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
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Packed full of interesting information
- By Andrew Teece on 05-04-23
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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Rasputin
- The Untold Story
- By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
- Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian Empire, but the truth about his strange life has never fully been told. Written by the world's leading authority on Rasputin, this new biography draws on previously closed Soviet archives to offer new information on Rasputin's relationship with Empress Alexandra, sensational revelations about his sexual conquests, a re-examination of his murder, and more.
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An extraordinaire story for a quite normal man.
- By Johanna on 09-12-13
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Rasputin
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-03-13
- Language: English
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A Failed Empire
- The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
- By: Vladimir Zubok
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the 20th century.
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Soviet Cold War History in an understandable form.
- By Adrian on 08-01-13
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A Failed Empire
- The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-03-10
- Language: English
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The Mad and the Brave
- The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion
- By: Colin Freeman
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Overall32
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Performance30
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A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's frontlines – some to save democracy, some to save themselves. A modern-day Homage to Catalonia – and Fight Club on steroids.' – Oliver Poole, London Standard ‘A great read’...
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good insight
- By Philip brighouse on 28-03-26
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The Mad and the Brave
- The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Last Witnesses
- Unchildlike Stories
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Overall30
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Performance24
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman. What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who...
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A real story about people's lives
- By Peter Larsson on 15-08-20
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Last Witnesses
- Unchildlike Stories
- Narrated by: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-07-19
- Language: English
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- By: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its...
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Quite shocking
- By David H. Furnival on 14-03-21
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
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Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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Great
- By Fergus Lamb on 29-12-18
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-09-18
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall47
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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries...
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informative.
- By Marcin on 20-09-22
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
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The Soviet Sixties
- By: Robert Hornsby
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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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. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period.
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On my wish list for ages and then finally lisented
- By Paul Hennigan on 25-03-25
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The Soviet Sixties
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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