Technocratic Soviets

When the Russian Revolution overthrew the backwards and autocratic Tzarist Regime, the Ivory Tower didn’t see it as much more than the inevitable march of history. The thought at the time was that once the revolutionaries had cleaned out the remnants of the reactionary feudal oligarchy, the Technocratic Union would throw its support behind establishing a modern capitalist democracy.

This plan was upset by a group of Men in Grey and Syndicate Financiers known as Prosveshchennyy Tekhnokraticheskiy Sovet (PTS), the Enlightened Technocratic Soviet. With the support of the Iteration X amalgam Rabotniki-17 and the Society of Ether splinter group Inzhenery Elektrodin, the PTS managed to help secure victory for the Bolsheviks in the Civil War. This victory cemented the Communist regime and forced a reluctant Ivory Tower to grant the Communist experiment Special Project status. As a result, though technically reporting to the Tower, the Communist Technocracy has its own Agenda and is in charge of overseeing its own Paradigm. The general idea being that whichever ideology has the most success in this great experiment, gets to set the Final Paradigm.

Though the PTS was involved in the revolution, they were far from the most influential group of supernaturals. Vampires of the Brujah clan had long been keeping tabs on the Russian revolutionary movement. In the chaos of 1917, the Brujah created a great number of new vampires and moved against those who stood in their way in what has become known as the Midnight Pogroms. Since then, they have entrenched themselves deep in the mortal power structure and now hold more influence than any other group of supernaturals in the Soviet Union.