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Can I read The Red Gods on EtoBox?
The Red Gods by Nicole, Christopher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Red Gods about?
Russia, 1919.The country is convulsed in a terrible civil war as the newly installed Communist government of Nikolai Lenin and his principal henchman, Leon Trotsky, confront the reactionary 'White' armies commanded by generals loyal to the now dead Tsar Nicholas II.It is, like most civil wars, a brutal and savage conflict, with atrocities on both sides, with families split by their differing situations and ideals.At least as eager to regain their ancestral lands as to restore the Tsar, Prince Alexei Bolugayevski of Bolugayen, and his son and heir Colin, are fighting for the Whites in the south.While on the side of the Reds is Prince Alexei's ex-wife Sonia — now mistress to Trotsky. Into this maelstrom comes another member of the family, Joseph Cromb, brought up in England, and now seeking some trace of his mother the Countess Patricia, supposedly murdered by the Reds in 1918.But when he joins Alexei and Colin, he is captured and taken by the Reds and tortured until Sonia begs for his life. Inevitably, he beds the beautiful woman, before returning to the Whites with a promise to keep her son alive.When he returns Alexei instead sends him to Priscilla, putting him in loco parentis of
Who reads The Red Gods?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nicole, Christopher
- Publisher
- Endeavour Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction