Andre Giles
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The Last Days of Stalin
- By: Joshua Rubenstein
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews. Stalin's sudden collapse and death in March 1953 was as dramatic and mysterious as his life. It is no overstatement to say that his passing marked a major turning point in the 20th century.
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JUST A LITTLE TOO DULL
- By Count B on 08-06-16
- The Last Days of Stalin
- By: Joshua Rubenstein
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Good quick summary
Reviewed: 06-10-23
Summarizes nicely the year before and after Stalin’s death
Gives reaction amongst politburo members in USSR, Eastern European communists satellites, Washington, London and Paris. I enjoyed how it quoted NYT, Times of London, Pravda, Tass etc to capture contemporary reaction at the time
Stalin’s monstrous crimes including pending anti semitic pogrom inspired by doctor’s plot was not new to me but Eastern European leaders taking their cue from Kremlin was
John Foster Dulles outsize role in Eisenhower administration (contrast with Acheson) a central theme of Washington’s decision making
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Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- By: Tobias Hürter
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time.
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Outstanding
- By Slim on 01-07-23
- Too Big for a Single Mind
- How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
- By: Tobias Hürter
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Outstanding
Reviewed: 02-14-23
Crisp, brisk, mind stretching and fun
The ensemble cast of characters woven brilliantly together over years, theories and countries.
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