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''In the end, ironically, it was the Bolsheviks once more that rboughtbrought the Founders' dreams of democracy crashing down. Facing invasion from the east, several of the CSR's constituent cities revolted, and now the former bastion of liberty in Russia is ruled by despotic juntas, rampaging anarchists, and presressiverepressive bolsheviks. But not all hope is lost - the CSR's government, located in the city of Tomsk under a provisional government led by Boris Pasternak, has survived, and as the year 1962 dawns, the President prepares to restore full democracy to the Republic.''

The fall of the [[Soviet Union]] brought untold harshipshardships on the people of Russia. Yet in this darkest of hours, the embers of hope could not be crushed by [[Germany|German]] militarism.

Not long after, [[Genrikh Yagoda]] launched an invasion from the Far East and it all became worse., kickstarting the [[Siberian War|Central Siberian War]]

Through all of thisthese catastrophes and upheaval, the people in and around Tomsk maintained their loyalty to the central government. President Pasternak suspended elections after the fall of Krasnoyarsk and declared a provisional government to stabilize the failing Republic. Pasternak and his advisors worked tirelessly to stabilize the food situation and ensured that some semblance of normal life could return to the capital.

Even being diagonseddiagnosed with cancer, this has not stopped President Pasternak from his herculean struggle to prevent the collapse of the Republic.

Despite Pasternak's popularity, the people of Tomsk can see the Provisional Government is only able to manage to stem the Republic's decline instead of turning things around. All hope is not lost, however, as the Poet-President has begun work on new foundations for the Republic. Believing that distancing from the people and the failure to mobilize the masses into supporting the nation has doomed the old Central Siberian Republic, Pasternak has beunbegun drafting a new constitution, one that would allow the Republic to tap into the vast pools of intellectuals, artists and scientists in Tomsk.

The Siberian Athens, blessed with schools, universities, and salons, shall rely upon its four greatest political associations in order to achieve its revival: the conservative [[Decembrists]], led by Russian medievalist [[Dmitry Likhachyov]]; the centralizing industralistsindustrialists of the [[Bastillards|Bastillard]] Salon and their leader, avant-garde poet [[Daniil Kharms]]; composer [[Dmitry Shostakovich]]'s utopian socialists of the [[Humanists|Humanist]] SovietySociety; and the liberal technocrats of [[Andrey Sakharov]]'s [[Modernists|Modernist]] Salon.

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|''Though the West Russian War ended almost a decade ago, Western Russia has never known peace with the Germans. Instead, life has been punctuated by regular bombings from the Luftwaffe, an unending campaign of terror meant to permanently hobblerhobble a one-time adversary.Though many Russians have found ways to live amid this violence, others have tried to escape it by fleeing east. This steady stream of refugees has permanently altered the distribution of Russia's population, with many migrating to the far reaches of the country the remain untouched by the Nazi war machine.''