Red winter
by Dan Smith
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It is 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and empty. The men have been massacred in the forest. The women and children have disappeared. In this remote, rural Russian community the folk tales mothers tell their children by candlelight take on powerful significance and the terrifying legend of Koschei, The Deathless One, begins to feel very real. Kolya sets out on a journey through dense, haunting forests and across vast plains as bitter winter sets in, in the desperate hope he will find his wife and two boys, and find them alive. But there are very dark things in Kolya's past. And, as he strives to find his family, there's someone or something on his trail ...
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Fiction, Missing persons, History, Massacres, Soldiers, Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a, Soviet Union, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, suspense, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡Places
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2014, Pegasus
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In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
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