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The great dissident's massive historical novel is an exploration of the conditions for the rise of communism. It dramatises the defeat of the ineptly led imperial army at the Battle of Tannenberg while (in the uncensored version) Lenin was busily conspiring to take advantage of the palsied Tsarist regime.
--Marshal Zeringue
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