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The History and Legacy of the Soviet Union's Notorious Spy Agency
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The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992. Whether it’s associated with the Russian Civil War’s excesses, Stalin’s purges, or even Vladimir Putin, the KGB has long been viewed as the West’s biggest bogeyman during the second half of the 20th century.
The KGB: The History and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Notorious Spy Agency examines the history of one of the most famous agencies in history. You will learn about the KGB like never before.
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The New Nobility
- The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
- De: Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogin
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.
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A little difficult to follow
- De Jairus en 12-10-10
De: Andrei Soldatov, y otros
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- De: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 38 h y 47 m
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Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted.
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
- De Nostromo en 03-23-15
De: Stephen Kotkin
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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
- The Political Economy of Human Rights - Volume I
- De: Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
- Narrado por: Brian Jones
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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A brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in the Third World... It relentlessly dissects the official views of Establishment scholars and their journals. The "best and brightest" pundits of the status quo emerge from this audiobook thoroughly denuded of their credibility.
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must listen
- De Amazon Customer en 09-14-20
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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The Secret World
- A History of Intelligence
- De: Christopher Andrew
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 37 h y 42 m
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The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. In this audiobook, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today.
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Very interesting history but biased
- De Thor Olson en 10-09-18
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The Third Reich in History and Memory
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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In the 70 years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in recent years. Drawing on his most notable writings, Evans reveals the shifting perspectives on Nazism's rise to political power, its economic intricacies, and its subterranean extension into postwar Germany.
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each book is better than the first. your writing is genius
- De Anonymous User en 05-10-24
De: Richard J. Evans
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Korean War
- A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe. The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots set foot on Korean soil. The heart of the conflict was a civil war between a population arbitrarily divided by colonization and the global geopolitics at the end of the Second World War.
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Awful
- De Kyle en 05-14-18
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Stormtroopers
- A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
- De: Daniel Siemens
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders.
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Tedious
- De AudioFile en 10-21-19
De: Daniel Siemens
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Russia in Flames
- War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
- De: Laura Engelstein
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 31 h y 11 m
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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" or "a crime and a disaster."
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Solid overview of events
- De Anonymous User en 06-27-19
De: Laura Engelstein
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- De: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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Not what I bargained for
- De Alexander Crowell en 08-21-20
De: Herbert P. Bix
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Army of Evil
- A History of the SS
- De: Adrian Weale
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffel. The world would know them as the dreaded SS - the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich...It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany - ranging from local village "gendarmes" all they way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo.
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Got lost in the details.
- De Alan en 11-28-12
De: Adrian Weale
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Fateful Triangle
- The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Brian Jones
- Duración: 30 h y 6 m
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From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship.
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Ethical Right to the Point
- De Not-Professor know-it-all en 09-23-15
De: Noam Chomsky