Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 John Rhode that it was an accident

that it was an accident

their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris

because since their mother's death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood

where the last of the wild gods reside

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 John Rhode that it was an accidentBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's