HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin

The year is 1920. 

The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery.

As World War 1 burns itself out, men who survived the fighting begin to wonder if a better world, a world without empires and wars, is possible.

These working class men return home to grinding poverty and the brutal conditions of factory work. Many still do not even have the vote.

For seventy years, since that famous manifesto was published, a spectre had haunted Europe, the spectre of communism.