High-society balls and bayonet charges, the whiplike meetings and gold of the Empire, industrial production and human relationships—war turns everything into a weapon.
The Red Army is defeated, the Soviet government has been overthrown, but the civil war isn’t over. An uprising flares up in the forests of Tambov region, one that could revive the Revolution. The new order must crush it at any cost.
Will anything human remain in those who turned themselves into tools of war?