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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.
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Horrifying
- De Mendy en 01-21-18
De: Anne Applebaum
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Savage Continent
- Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
- De: Keith Lowe
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the 20th century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war.
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Better in print?
- De Rodney en 10-10-12
De: Keith Lowe
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Mexican History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Mexico and the Mexican Revolution
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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If you want to discover the captivating history of Mexico, then pay attention...Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Mexico and The Mexican Revolution. So if you want to learn more about the history of Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, buy this audiobook now!
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An Absolutely Captivating Work
- De Elisa Cox en 11-21-20
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Hitler's Empire
- How the Nazis Ruled Europe
- De: Mark Mazower
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 27 h y 8 m
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Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion - and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the war. Mark Mazower forces us to set aside timeworn opinions of the Third Reich, and instead shows how the party drew inspiration for its imperial expansion from America and Great Britain.
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Page Turning Scholarship
- De philip en 06-08-19
De: Mark Mazower
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The Hidden History of Burma
- Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
- De: Thant Myint-U
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects all of the elements that came together to challenge the incipient democracy.
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Comprehensive Account on Burma’s recent problems
- De Anonymous User en 11-18-19
De: Thant Myint-U
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
- De David I. Williams en 01-12-14
De: Simon Price, y otros
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- De: Tamim Ansary
- Narrado por: Tamim Ansary
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.
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Very enlightening read
- De Massoud en 05-31-17
De: Tamim Ansary
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The Mexican Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to the Mexican Civil War and How Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Impacted Mexico
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment of the 20th century. The Mexican fight for democracy, equality, and justice sent shockwaves around the world. No other episode in its history has left a deeper mark. It is a three-act drama full of politics, persecution, and war, not to mention earthquakes, signs in the sky, and even spiritualist sessions, while being populated by larger-than-life villains, international spies, and the universally known figures of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
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Don’t have readers who speak Spanish - It’s the LAW!
- De James C en 06-26-21
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- De: Charles Emmerson
- Narrado por: Charles Emmerson
- Duración: 25 h y 13 m
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In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.
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Splendid in all respects
- De Paul Custer en 02-11-20
De: Charles Emmerson
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1946
- The Making of the Modern World
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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In 1946, Victor Sebestyen creates a taut, panoramic narrative and takes us to meetings that changed the world: to Berlin in July 1945, when Truman tells Stalin that we have successfully tested the bomb; to Ye'nan, China, in January 1946, when General George Marshall tells the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong that Americans won't send troops to China, assuring that the Communists will attain power.
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An education. Somber, detailed, many-faceted
- De Philo en 08-20-16
De: Victor Sebestyen
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Tombstone
- The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
- De: Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, y otros
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster". As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father.
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A must read if you are interested in evil
- De Pat Gifford en 06-30-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- De: Jason Stearns
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it.
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First book I've found that explains DRC
- De Amazon Customer en 09-09-17
De: Jason Stearns
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.
De: Frank Dikötter
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The World Turned Upside Down
- A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- De: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This 10-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy.
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Soooo much info...
- De BenRias en 05-26-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Through decades of direct experience of the People’s Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People’s Trilogy offers a riveting account of China’s rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126t largest economy in the world to second largest.
De: Frank Dikötter
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Tombstone
- The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
- De: Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, y otros
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster". As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father.
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A must read if you are interested in evil
- De Pat Gifford en 06-30-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Jack Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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Worth a listen
- De Amazon Customer en 12-06-19
De: Frank Dikötter
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
- De: Helen Zia
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.
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Great book, poor performance
- De Helpful Buyer en 07-02-19
De: Helen Zia
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.
De: Frank Dikötter
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The World Turned Upside Down
- A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- De: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This 10-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy.
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Soooo much info...
- De BenRias en 05-26-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Through decades of direct experience of the People’s Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People’s Trilogy offers a riveting account of China’s rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126t largest economy in the world to second largest.
De: Frank Dikötter
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Tombstone
- The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
- De: Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, y otros
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster". As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father.
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A must read if you are interested in evil
- De Pat Gifford en 06-30-21
De: Yang Jisheng, y otros
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Jack Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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Worth a listen
- De Amazon Customer en 12-06-19
De: Frank Dikötter
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
- De: Helen Zia
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.
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Great book, poor performance
- De Helpful Buyer en 07-02-19
De: Helen Zia
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- De: Frank Dikötter
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.
De: Frank Dikötter
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- De: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 25 h y 42 m
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.
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Great book
- De Jeremy Godwin en 03-18-24
De: Alexander V. Pantsov, y otros
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- De: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 29 h y 50 m
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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative biography of Mao ever written.
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- De Jene en 08-07-06
De: Jung Chang, y otros
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
- China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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Stephen R. Platt is widely respected for his incisive nonfiction, particularly in regard to his knowledge and understanding of China. With Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Platt details the absorbing narrative of the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of 20 million lives. Occurring in the 1850s, this is the story of a cultural movement characterized by intriguing personages such as influential military strategist Zeng Guofan and brilliant Taiping leader Hong Rengan.
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InTOLerable Reader
- De Adam en 07-07-12
De: Stephen R. Platt
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The Chinese Civil War
- 1945–49
- De: Michael Lynch
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. Delving into the political background and complex ramifications of the conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang’s millions-strong armies, their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China.
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Just wish it was longer
- De J.Brock en 11-13-22
De: Michael Lynch
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Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
- A Concise History: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
- De: Rebecca E. Karl
- Narrado por: Bobby Brill
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution. She situates Mao and the revolution in a global setting informed by imperialism, decolonization, and third worldism, and discusses worldwide trends in politics, the economy, military power, and territorial sovereignty.
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A balanced view of Mao's life and legacy
- De Douglas A. Greenberg en 06-18-20
De: Rebecca E. Karl
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular best seller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- De David en 12-15-12
De: Jung Chang
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The Search for Modern China
- De: Jonathan D. Spence
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 52 m
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The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth. With his command of character and event - the product of 30 years of research and reflection in the field - Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over four centuries of Chinese history, Spence fashions the astonishing story of the effort to achieve a modern China.
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Excellent book, lazy narrator
- De Delano en 10-19-12
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak.
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Fascinating reading
- De David L. Jones en 03-26-20
De: Jung Chang
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China
- A History
- De: John Keay
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
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Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.
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Needs new narrator
- De Betty en 10-16-16
De: John Keay
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China's Leaders
- From Mao to Now
- De: David Shambaugh
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it.
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Very informative
- De JohnDoe en 04-03-23
De: David Shambaugh
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China's Civilian Army
- The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
- De: Peter Martin
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front line: China's diplomats. They give a rare perspective on the greatest geopolitical drama of the last half century.
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Excellent
- De Amy B. en 04-02-23
De: Peter Martin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Tragedy of Liberation
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- Philana Crouch
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The book is excellent...the narrator not so much
The book itself is excellent, not the story of course, which is a tragedy, but Dikötter does a good job of telling the story and providing evidence. It truly shatters any idea that communism is a good idea. He shows that from the start the CCP brought oppression to the people of China. The successes of the Chinese people are in spite of the CCP not because of the CCP. I can only say after reading/listening to this book is the sad thing is that people who live in countries with a free press, will carry water for a regime that has murdered its own citizens, instead they slander the critics of the CCP with the worst names. The CCP has abused and continues to abuse its people, and to criticize its oppressive policies against its own people is standing up for those who cannot speak freely for themselves.
This book shows the roots of this oppressive regime. That they began terrorizing their own people and enslaved them. Requiring them to have "correct thinking" rather than freedom to think and speak. Mao is not a hero but a sociopath, he knew what he was doing was wrong, he just didn't care.
The only downside is the narrator of this audiobook. His reading is almost monotone and doesn't have much if any variation of tone. I was able to get through it by speeding up the audio to about 1.5 or 1.7x. 2x's was a bit too fast and caused words to skip. By speeding things up it was not as difficult to listen to.
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- Jed Pruett
- 11-19-23
Broad History on a relatively short period
The pace of the history kept things moving at a brisk pace. Does not get bogged down in political details or dates. Instead gives little examples of experiences and brief vignettes. It’s at an introductory level. Doesn’t spend a ton of time on party politics or international context but enough to keep you grounded. Focused on the experience of the general population. I liked it enough that I intend to listen to the remainder of the trilogy.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-22
the narration is abysmal
the content was interesting and so was the writing. it's unfortunate that the narrator is so horrendous. he ends almost every sentence like a question. I don't know how it was allowed to be published like that. garbage.
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- Erich Soiles
- 09-26-20
enlightening.
had to get use to the readers voice at first. Facts if what happened to China is depressing. But knowledge we must know to prevent from repeating.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-19-21
Great book; narration a little strange
I really enjoyed the book. It was long, and quite a difficult story to hear, but well written and makes a compelling argument. Critics may see it as a one-sided take-down of Mao and the communist party in the first half of the 20th century, but with the evidence marshaled here one has to wonder what, if anything ,could put Mao into a positive light after hearing this.
The narration, however, leaves something to be desired. “Stiff” would be putting it lightly. It seems as though the voice artist was trying to read as though it were a stage production, with a sort of bravado inappropriate for prose. The same cadence and emphasis line after line after line, not to mention the poorly pronounced Chinese (not the worst I’ve heard, but still seems like an important thing to work on if your job is reading a book about China), was hard not to notice.
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- Jordan Schneider
- 08-23-20
Great book awful narrator
Annoying monotone can’t speak chinese odd stresses big disappointment for me was looking forward to listening to this
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- PBuck1983
- 05-17-21
Essential for any student of history
Depressing but excellent. A page-turner, even. If only this book was part of every high-school curriculum. No one who reads this book can seriously argue that China under Mao did not methodically attempt socialism leading to communism.
The short section about the CCP killing everyone's dogs in the name of public health has particular relevance today. If the authorities can legally take away your presumption of innocence, force you to stay at home, wear a mask, and get vaccinated, they can also kill your pet.
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- Gabriel R
- 08-25-23
unlistenable narration
Worst narrator I have ever heard. He has a robotic intonation and a sing-song cadence such that every sentence sounds like "bum bum buh, bum bum buh." I gave up a few hours in. I really like Dikotter, having read two of his books before, but the narration is so atrocious I couldn't actually tell if the book itself was good.
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- j
- 01-19-23
Buy the physical book. Reads like a robot.
Omgosh listening to this book is soooo fricking painful to listen to!!! If Bruce Mann did Maos famine I can’t. If it’s going to be in English get a first language English speaker to do it. Dude sounds like a damn robot. I’m trying so hard to bust it out and get it over with. Just buy the physical book.
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- Annie
- 02-02-22
Narration is excruciating
Remember that scene in The Wrath of Khan where Chekhov gets the ear worm digging into his brain and he holds his ear, tries to get away from it and screams? It’s like that.
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