The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Vance (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.
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Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Biography & Memoir shelf
4,909 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book is an audiobook by Petra Couvée and Peter Finn: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released June 17, 2014, on the Biography & Memoir and History shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- June 17, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biography & Memoir, History
- ISBN
- 9781622314379
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book as an audiobook?
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book?
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book is narrated by Simon Vance.