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"I never gave a monkeys for Marxism or Monarchism or Liberalism or Conservatism or Socialism or any ism. I've always been leery of anyone brandishing an ism - an excuse to howl at the moon if you ask me. And they're all moralists too, always got it in for someone else, usually someone like me." - Archibald Brinsley Fox.

Rough as robber's dog and licentious as Sodom's finest, Archibald Fox was never the stuff of revolutionary heroes. So what on Earth was he doing at Lenin's side in Petrograd during the Spring of Hope?... He was hoping to thieve a Faberge Egg and seduce Lenin's former...

Smiting the Bear is the journal of Archibald Fox's extraordinary adventures in the Russian wasteland of 1920-21.

Known in his day as a spy, thief, forger, womaniser and saxophonist, Fox was an unlikely witness to this dark, forgotten time. Determined to steal a Faberge Egg and seduce the former mistress of Vladimir Lenin, he remained in Russia when the other Revolutionary tourists fled.

He is forced to witness elaborate torture, celebrated by an entire village. He is compelled to partake in the new cuisine; cannibalism. He is petrified in the ghost cities by hunger, madness,...