From the introduction: Border and battleground between Orient and Occident, a vast wilderness interspersed with the highest flowerings of civilization, the last bastion of the true hereditary autocrat and the first domain of the modern dictator - Russia is ever a land of contradictions and conflicts. In the world of Victory: War of Bronze, that violent dialectic never lulled. Now, the slightest shift in the balance of power could turn the Russias into the bloodiest battleground of the Second Great Conflict. Flashpoint! Russia is your introduction to the rapidly heating war in this cold land.