24 must-read history books like Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses) by Lynne Ann Hartnett

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Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

3.90

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their pla…

If you liked the history plot in Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses) by Lynne Ann Hartnett , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Great World Religions: Hinduism

By: Mark W. Muesse

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Audio Cassette

AUDIO CASSETTE COURSE. read more

Similar categories in Mark W. Muesse's Great World Religions: Hinduism book and Lynne Ann Hartnett's Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The Hindu tradition speaks of four “goods"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

"Śiva is both the creator and destroyer of the universe, movement and tranquility, light and darkness, male and female, celibate and promiscuous. These paradoxes serve to symbolize the limitlessness a…"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

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2. The Vikings

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Parts one,two, and three. Each part contains six audio cassettes and course guidebook in a clamshel… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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3. A History of Eastern Europe

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

4.24

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheava… read more

Similar categories in Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius's A History of Eastern Europe book and Lynne Ann Hartnett's Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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4. The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.32

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
  • audiobook
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5. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)

By: Kenneth J. Hammond

4.49

Format: None pages,

In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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6. The Foundations of Eastern Civilization

By: None

3.66

Format: 320 pages,

Over the course of 48 ambitious lectures The Foundations of Eastern Civilization takes you on a gra… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The History of the United States (Great Courses, #8500)

By: Patrick N. Allitt , Allen C. Guelzo , Gary W. Gallagher

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Audio CD

This is the chronicle of a nation that enslaved a race of people. And of a nation that fought a Civ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History

By: Mark J. Ravina

3.52

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Japan's extraordinary culture is like no other in the world, and it remains mysterious to many of u… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. World War II: A Military and Social History

By: Thomas Childers

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Fall and Rise of China (Great Courses, #8370)

By: Richard Baum

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Audio CD

The Fall and Rise of China, taught by China expert and Professor Richard Baum of the University of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11. History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (The Great Courses, Course No. 8380)

By: None

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Audio CD

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12. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)

By: Bob Brier

0.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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13. The Early Middle Ages

By: Philip Daileader

4.20

Format: None pages, Audiobook

We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more

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14. 1066: The Year That Changed Everything

By: Jennifer Paxton

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Audio CD

If you were to look back at hundreds of years of history in search of the one critical moment after… read more

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15. A History of Hitler's Empire (The Great Courses, #805)

By: Thomas Childers

3.71

Format: 76 pages,

Know thy enemy. That's what the wisdom of history teaches us. And Adolf Hitler was surely the great… read more

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16. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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17. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.19

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. The Mongol Empire

By: Craig G. Benjamin

3.89

Format: 345 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 11 hours and 34 minutes The Mongol Empire was the largest empire the world has… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
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19. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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20. The Persian Empire

By: John W.I. Lee

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
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21. Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

3.98

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

5 hours and 50 minutes Trace the growth of communism from Stalin’s consolidation of power to the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal

By: Kyler Shumway

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Real History of Secret Societies

By: Richard B. Spence

3.68

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 12 hours and 21 minutes Welcome to The Real History of Secret Societies, a his… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

3.87

Format: 13 pages, Paperback

Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our side has agents. Their side has spies."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"Espionage is the world's second oldest profession."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

"You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears."

-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

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25. Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

3.90

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their pla… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Ann Hartnett's Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses) book and Lynne Ann Hartnett's Understanding Russia: A Cultural History (The Great Courses)

  • cultural
  • russia
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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26. The Celtic World

By: Jennifer Paxton

4.09

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
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27. The Rise of Modern Japan

By: Mark J. Ravina

4.05

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Devastated by war, Japan in 1945 faced ruin as a major power. Yet within a quarter century it bounc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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28. A History of British India

By: Hayden J. Bellenoit

3.98

Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio

12 hours 11 mins No era is more pertinent to understanding how present-day India, Pakistan, and … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Middle Ages Around the World

By: Joyce E. Salisbury

4.12

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

12 hours and 15 minutes The Middle Ages was a time of major historical shifts and transformation… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler

30. Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America

By: Rebekah Koffler

3.88

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

Putin’s Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born … read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Berlin Wall: A World Divided by Hope M. Harrison

31. The Berlin Wall: A World Divided

By: Hope M. Harrison

3.95

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

5 hours and 2 minutes The Berlin Wall is perhaps modern history’s most infamous edifice. Fo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Great World Religions: Hinduism

Mark W. Muesse

3.84

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The Vikings

Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

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Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

4.24

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Dorsey Armstrong

4.32

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The Higgs Boson and Beyond

Sean Carroll

4.12

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Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

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Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

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Edwin Barnhart

4.15

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