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    Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

    by Stephen Walker ...
    Narrated by David Rintoul ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    ‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile – originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead – and blasts into the skies. His name ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Gulag Archipelago

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
    Narrated by Jordan B Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 29 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, read by the author's son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn.With a new foreword written and read by Jordan B. Peterson, and an exclusive Q&A between Jordan B. Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.The officially approved abridgement of The Gulag Archipelago Volumes I, II & III.A vast canvas of camps, prisons, tra... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Spy and the Traitor

    The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    by Ben MacIntyre ...
    Narrated by Ben MacIntyre ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize**Bill Gates' Top 5 Books for 2020*'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRÉA thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterwordOn a warm July evening in 1985, a mid... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    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 steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Russia

    Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Rob Heaps ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 4 min

    'The book is a masterpiece' The Spectator'A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history' Sunday Times'Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history' Daily TelegraphBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Gulag

    A History

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 42 min

    The Gulag-a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners-was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl

    History of a Tragedy

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 52 min

    **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 just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Berlin

    The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 9 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Noble.Berlin: The Downfall 1945 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich.The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Road to Unfreedom

    Russia, Europe, America

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder.The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Stalin

    The Court of the Red Tsar

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Aris ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 50 min

    Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 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. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The House of Government

    A Saga of the Russian Revolution

    by Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    45 hours 10 min

    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Gates of Europe

    A History of Ukraine

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its ... Read more

    $63.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Russia: The Wild East

    The complete BBC Radio 4 series

    by Martin Sixsmith, Martin Sixsmith ...
    Narrated by Martin Sixsmith ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    Power struggles have a constant presence in Martin Sixsmith’s story of Russia. Collected here in 50 episodes, he chronicles the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive Tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s re-emergence as a superpower.Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great – all left their mark on a nation that ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl Prayer

    Penguin Modern Classics

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Narrated by Andrew Byron, Sasha Alexis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Reconstruction of Nations

    Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Rich Miller ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

    An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    Narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn ...

    Abridged

    21 hours 53 min

    “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 YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a ... Read more

    $56.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars, The: The History of the Russian Conflicts against the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    The Mongols were pushed out of the region by the Poles and Lithuanians, who then occupied state territories in the 14th century. Poland seized areas in the west, known as Galicia, while Lithuania occupied a northern area called Volynia. The Mongol-Tatars, however, retained control of the Crimean Peninsula, using it as a base for trade, including that of slaves, with the Ottoman Empire. The Tatars ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine

    by Owen Matthews ...
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 23 min

    *A Telegraph Book of the Year**Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Moscow, December 25,1991

    The Last Day of the Soviet Union

    by Conor O'Clery ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Medieval Ukraine: The History of the Region and the Civilizations that Fought to Control It Before the Advent of the Russian Empire

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by David Pickering ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 39 min

    “Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.” – Napoleon BonaparteThe history of Ukraine is a fascinating story of how cultures, political systems, religions, and power have met, intersected, morphed, and expanded. The region was relatively sparsely populated for much of ancient history, a wilderness of rivers, forests, and steppes, but that does not detract from the rich ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Russia's Last Gasp

    The Eastern Front 1916–17

    by Prit Buttar ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...
    Audiobook 3 - Eastern Front

    Unabridged

    21 hours 19 min

    In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare-the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French, and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Russia

    A Short History

    by Abraham Ascher ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, it covers the growing political tensions between Russia and its neighbors, and the mounting divergence between Russian and U.S. foreign policies. This stimulating and ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Russia in Flames

    War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921

    by Laura Engelstein ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 11 min

    October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial