The Russian Gladiator: A story about the Ukrainian War and what might happen after - Softcover

Pilotoff, Slava

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798283514840

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

It began like a fairy tale. Lena meets a man straight out of her dreams, a decorated Russian military pilot. Brave, charismatic, and fiercely devoted, he gives her everything she never thought she’d have: love, protection…and her very own apartment.

But there’s a price.

Alex earns his living bombing Ukraine. And every time he returns, he comes back changed—darker, colder, more dangerous. Lena tries to hold onto the storybook version of her life, but it begins to unravel. Fast.

What she thought was a Cinderella story becomes something far more disturbing. Moscow is slipping into a techno-dystopia of drones and surveillance cars, AI-powered ghosts, and a society hurtling toward collapse.

This isn’t fiction pulled from fantasy. It’s rooted in the twisted reality of modern Russia, a world built not just by the powerful, but by the quiet consent of those who looked away.

The Russian Gladiator is a sharp, compact novel that pulls no punches. For readers who want to understand Russia from the inside—its psychology, its moral corrosion, its inevitable trajectory—this book offers more than a story.

It offers a warning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798283514840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 97