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    Secondhand Time
    Secondhand Time ab 12.99 € als epub eBook: The Last of the Soviets. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    Joseph E. Davies
    Joseph E. Davies ab 109.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Envoy to the Soviets. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1378min
    The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul". Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past 30 years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning from 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres - but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world. A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. "Through the voices of those who confided in her," The Nation writes, "Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil - in a word, about ourselves." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber, Rebecca Lowman, Jorjeana Marie, Coleen Marlo, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004615/bk_rand_004615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bolsheviks Volume II
    The Bolsheviks Volume II ab 38.99 € als Taschenbuch: How the Soviets Seize Power. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    World War 2: Soldier Stories, Part IV - Second Edition: The True Chilling Stories of the Soviet Front , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    True stories from the Soviet front lines in WWII.War is no place for the weak. It takes its toll on everyone involved. The participants are never the same, nor is the land that is left ravaged by the brutality inflicted upon its inhabitants. The conflicts between the Soviets and Nazi Germany was no exception. Journey into some of the untold stories of the Soviet front in World War II as the Soviets fought for their freedom and their lives.Learn about Germany’s master plan for the entire nation of Russia and how they planned to deal with the so-called inferior Soviets. Listen more about how the Red Army fought back and won. The cost was great, but the reward was even greater. Learn about some of the many battles that caused the Soviet Union to lose nearly 14 percent of their population. They fought back valiantly as the Germans invaded the Motherland, driving them back out of the country.Listen about the atrocities that the Soviet prisoners of war were subjected to. They were some of the first unfortunate inmates at the infamous Auschwitz and the first to take a one way trip to the gas chamber. They may have been the lucky ones though. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis J. Baxter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168521/bk_acx0_168521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Storm Rising, Hörbuch, Digital, 130min
    Allah!" With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR. To offset the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf. But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win. Language: English. Narrator: F. Murray Abraham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000239/bk_rand_000239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alternative Paths
    Alternative Paths ab 156.99 € als pdf eBook: Soviets and Americans 1917-1920. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Soviet Russia's Space Program During the Space Race: The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
    Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program of the 1950s and 1960s. As a result of Russian innovation and technology, but also due to incredible drive to modernize and compete with the United States for world power, Russia was finally and triumphantly modernized in the eyes of her own people and the world. Neil deGrasse Tyson recognized the Soviet legacy in space in his Space Chronicles, citing the Soviets' "important measure[s] of space achievement: first spacewalk, longest spacewalk, first woman in space, first docking in space, first space station, longest time logged in space." In fact, the Soviet Union spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). President Eisenhower and other Americans who could view Soviet rockets in the sky were justifiably worried that Soviet satellites in orbit could soon be spying on them, or, even worse, dropping nuclear bombs on them. Dovetailing off their success developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Soviets were the first to make enormous advances in actual space exploration, and on the night of October 4, 1957, the Soviets prepared to launch "Object D" atop one of its R-7 rockets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082390/bk_acx0_082390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Berlin Airlift: The History and Legacy of the First Major Crisis of the Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
    In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other. Though it never got "hot" between the two superpowers, the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR, and nothing symbolized the split more than the division of Berlin. Berlin had been a flashpoint even before World War II ended, and the city was occupied by the different Allies even as the close of the war turned them into adversaries. If anyone wondered whether the Cold War would dominate geopolitics, any hopes that it wouldn't were dashed by the Soviets' blockade of West Berlin in April 1948, ostensibly to protest the currency being used in West Berlin but unquestionably aiming to extend their control over Germany's capital. By cutting off all access via roads, rail, and water, the Soviets hoped to force the Allies out, and at the same time, Stalin's action would force a tense showdown that would test their mettle. In response to the blockade, the British, Americans, Canadians, and other Allies had no choice but to either acquiesce or break the blockade by air, hoping (correctly) that the Soviets wouldn't dare shoot down planes being used strictly for civilian purposes. Over the course of the next year, over 200,000 flights were made to bring millions of tons of crucial supplies to West Berlin, with the Allies maintaining a pace of landing a plane in West Berlin every 30 seconds at the height of the Airlift. As the success of the Berlin Airlift became clear, the Soviets realized the blockade was ineffective, and both sides were able to save face by negotiating an end to the blockade in April 1949, with the So ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076869/bk_acx0_076869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Star Rogue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
    One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. The Nixon administration launched a clandestine, half-billion-dollar project to recover the sunken K-129. The successful recovery effort helped forge new relations between the U.S. and the Soviets, even as it revealed a treacherous plan to provoke war between the U.S. and China, a plan that, had it succeeded, would have had devastating consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Emerson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001310/bk_blak_001310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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