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This is the absorbing story of a quixotic crusade by a group of Russian emigres to take over the Soviet Union, dislodge its Communist rulers, and establish a fascist state there.

Rich in irony, humor, and not a little pathos, The Russian Fascists provides the first full account of this small but dynamic element within the Russian emigration. Cast out by the Revolution and now powerless, these exiles tried to compensate for their political impotence by engaging in desperate fantasies. Eager to reestablish themselves in their homeland, they sought collaboration with anyone who catered to their illusions—Chinese warlords, Japanese generals, Nazi satraps and, eventually, Josef Stalin.

The Russian fascists were fitfully tolerated inside the Third Reich, where Hitler opposed Russian nationalist aspirations, but they did find congenial bases in the Far East and the United States. In Manchuria, where thousands of Russian refugees had settled, a vigorous fascist organization arose, replete with martial music, brawling stormtroopers, swastika armbands, and its own vozhd— Fuhrer — an ill-starred dreamer named Konstantin Rodzaevsky. A second fascist center sprang up, improbably, on the lush Connecticut estate of a Chicago pork and wheat heiress who had married the Western Hemisphere vozhd, “Count” Anastase Vonsiatsky. A consummate showman, Vonsiatsky, assisted by an entourage of local cronies, baffled Nazis, Communists, and the FBI alike by publicizing his imaginary network of saboteurs within the USSR and by holding grandiose maneuvers of his “armed forces,” which consisted of toy battleships purchased at Woolworth’s and a “tank corps” of swastika-painted turtles that patrolled the local ponds and woods.