Kingsley Amis sets the book in England 50 years after its conquest by Soviet Russia. The plot is to turn the occupying government upside down.
A handsome and highly sexed young Russian cavalry officer, Alexander Petrovsky, joins the plot and learns to his regret that politics and playmates don't mix.
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Kingsley Amis sets the book in England 50 years after its conquest by Soviet Russia. The plot is to turn the occupying government upside down. A handsome and highly sexed young Russian cavalry officer, Alexander Petrovsky, joins the plot and learns to his regret that politics and playmates don't mix.