After a nuclear war, Americans attempt to prevent the rise of Russia at the outset of the
19th century by traveling back to that time and inhabiting the bodies of key Finnish and
Swedish military men during the siege of Sveaborg.
He began to babble about Sveaborg, about the importance of what we are doing here, about
the urgent need to change something, somehow, to prevent the Soviet Union from ever
coming into existence, and thus forestall the war that has laid the world to waste.