The Scarlet Generation

Caught up in this cataclysmic struggle of hatred and heroism are the surviving members of the Bolugayevski family:

Alexei, an American doctor, volunteers for medical duty in Russian hospitals when the war begins taking his girlfriend Elaine with him, before meeting up with his long lost relative Tatiana.

Tatiana, Jennie's daughter, last in the female line, and brought up to be a dedicated Communist, is caught behind the enemy lines, and becomes a wanted murderer, destined to become a famous partisan commander.

Joseph Cromb, who survived twelve years in the Gulag Archipelago, returns as a member of an American fact-finding mission, only to become more involved than he would have thought possible...

Priscilla Bolugayevska-Cromb, still calling herself Princess Dowager of Bolugayen, who plunges headlong into the corrupt and vicious society of the Kremlin.

And Sonia Bolugayevska, Trotsky's mistress, who dreams only of revenge.

Meanwhile, amongst the Nazis is Anna, now married to Alexander Von Holzbach. She is desperate for revenge on any member of the Russian group behind her brother and lover's death which includes Tatiana. But with a mother who is both Jewish and associated with communists, will she even be safe in Nazi Germany?

In the cauldron of war-torn Soviet Russia, these memorable characters are hurled against each other, to love and to hate, to kill and to die, and, for some, to conquer.