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Título: Breve Historia de la Revolución Rusa

Autor: Íñigo Bolinaga

Narrador: David Espunya

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-06-14

Editor: Audible Studios

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 10 votos

Categorías: History, 20th Century

Resumen del editor:

La violenta creación del primer gobierno socialista de la historia que marcará todo el S. XX europeoy desembocará en una de las autocracias más destructivas de la historia de la humanidad.

La Revolución Rusa es uno de los acontecimientos más importantes del S. XX en Europa porque supone la creación del primer gobierno socialista en el mundo y antecede a la creación de la URSS y al cruel gobierno de Stalin, dos hechos sin los cuales, no se puede dar cuenta de la historia mundial del S. XX. Breve Historia de la Revolución Rusa nos presenta este conflicto de un modo claro que no renuncia, sin embargo, a explicar detalladamente no sólo los procesos que llevaron a la creación de la URSS sino las distintas ambiciones de los agentes implicados en tales procesos. Desde una perspectiva imparcial veremos las injusticias y las traiciones cometidas tanto por el zar Nicolás II como por los ejecutores de la revolución: Lenin, Trotski, Bujarin, Kamenev, Zinoviev y, por supuesto, Stalin.

Comienza el análisis Íñigo Bolinaga analizando la situación del Imperio ruso bajo el régimen despótico del zar Nicolás II, ajeno a la miseria del campesinado ruso muy atrasado con respecto al resto de Europa, el análisis que hace no es sólo político sino que también analiza la heterogeneidad del vastísimo imperio. No nos puede extrañar que tras la revolución frustrada de 1905, los burgueses le alzaran en el 17 y derrocaran al zar sin problemas, sin embargo, la debilidad del gobierno provisional hizo que tuviera que recurrir a los bolcheviques que no querían desaprovechar la oportunidad de obtener el gobierno ruso. Tras ganar al Ejército Blanco que contaba con la ayuda de EEUU, Francia e Inglaterra, el Ejército Rojo bolchevique instaura un gobierno socialista y crea la URSS que engloba los dispares territorios que antes administrara el imperio.

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Title: Europe Since 1989

Subtitle: A History

Author: Philipp Ther

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe over the next quarter century.

The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe over the next quarter century.

This award-winning book provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe. Philipp Ther offers a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. He describes how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries. He refutes the idea that this economic "shock therapy" was the basis of later growth, arguing that human capital and the "transformation from below" determined economic success or failure. Most important, he shows how the capitalist West's effort to reshape Eastern Europe in its own likeness ended up reshaping Western Europe as well, in part by accelerating the pace and scope of neoliberal reforms in the West, particularly in reunified Germany. Finally, bringing the story up to the present, Ther compares events in Eastern and Southern Europe leading up to and following the 2008-9 global financial crisis.

Critic Reviews:

"[Europe Since 1989]...is well-documented. It can be recommended to general readers and students of postcommunist history in Europe." (Choice)

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Title: The Apollo 1 Disaster

Subtitle: The Controversial History and Legacy of the Fire that Caused One of NASA's Greatest Tragedies

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Bob Barton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

"There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course; this can happen on any flight; it can happen on the last one as well as the first one. So, you just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew and you go fly." (Gus Grissom, December 1966)

The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the moon, during Apollo 11, had complicated roots dating back over a decade; it also involved one of NASA's most infamous tragedies. Landing on the moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government's urgency in designing the Apollo program was actually brought about by the Soviet Union, which spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). In 1957, at a time when people were concerned about communism and nuclear war, many Americans were dismayed by news that the Soviet Union was successfully launching satellites into orbit.

Among those concerned was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose space program was clearly lagging a few years behind the Soviets' space program. From 1959-1963, the United States worked toward putting satellites and humans into orbit via the Mercury program, but Eisenhower's administration was already designing plans for the Apollo program by 1960, a year before the first Russian orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

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Title: The Disappearance of the USS Scorpion

Subtitle: The History of the Mysterious Sinking of the American Nuclear Submarine

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Ken Teutsch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-16

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation's navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand. Also, submarine service is uncharacteristically hazardous; after all, if a surface vessel is sunk, the crew has a reasonable chance of escaping death in lifeboats or being rescued out of the water by another ship. Conversely, if a submarine is badly damaged while submerged, the crew's chances of survival are at best remote. On the other hand, for those who choose to make the careers as submariners, there is no more beloved service. That is, one hopes, how it was for the 99 men who were serving on the USS Scorpion on May 22, 1968, the fateful day the submarine is believed to have sank. It appears that the crew members died quickly, but however it happened, the grief experienced by their family members dragged on for decades, exacerbated both by the Navy's lack of information about the submarine's final moments and the government's unwillingness to share what little knowledge it had.

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Title: The Battle of Kursk

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Tank Battle of World War II

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: David Zarbock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Front arena where the armies of Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943. Endless rolling plains - ideal "tank country" - vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies. The winner could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he could no longer hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed "Nemets" invaders from Russian soil - and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central Europe.

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Title: Isaac's Army

Subtitle: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Author: Matthew Brzezinski

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-12

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 58 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler's war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac's Army, Matthew Brzezinski delivers the first-ever comprehensive narrative account of that struggle, following a group of dedicated young Jews - some barely out of their teens - whose individual acts of defiance helped rewrite the ending of World War II.

Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and surviving relatives, Isaac's Army chronicles the extraordinary triumphs and devastating setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its earliest acts of defiance in 1939 to the exodus to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the confident and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the Jewish Fighting Organization; Simha Ratheiser, Isaac's fifteen-year-old bodyguard, whose boyish good looks and seeming immunity to danger made him an ideal courier; and Zivia Lubetkin, the warrior queen of the underground who, upon hearing the first intimations of the Holocaust, declared: "We are going to defend ourselves."

Joined by allies on the left and right, they survived Gestapo torture chambers, smuggled arms, ran covert printing presses, opened illegal schools, robbed banks, executed collaborators, and fought in the two largest rebellions of the war. Hunted by the Germans and bedeviled by the "Greasers" - roving bands of blackmailers who routinely turned in resistance fighters for profit - the movement was chronically short on firepower but long on ingenuity. Its members hatched plots in dank basements, never more than a door knock away from summary execution, and slogged through fetid sewers to escape the burning Ghetto to the forests surrounding the city. And after the initial uprising was ruthlessly put down by the SS, they gambled everything on a bold plan for a citywide revolt - of both Jews and Gentiles - that could end only in victory or total destruction. The money they raised helped thousands hide when the Ghetto was liquidated. The documents they forged offered lifelines to families desperate to escape the horror of the Holocaust. And when the war was over, they helped found the state of Israel.

A story of secret alliances, internal rivalries, and undying commitment to a cause, Isaac's Army is history at its most heart -wrenching. Driven by an unforgettable cast of characters, it's a true-life tale with the pulse of a great novel, and a celebration of the indomitable spirit of resistance.

Critic Reviews:

"This is an intense story that transcends the horror of the time and finds real inspiration in the bravery of those who fought back - some of whom lived to tell their stories." (Alan Furst, author of Mission to Paris)

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