Setting the East ablaze : on secret service in Bolshevik Asia Author: Hopkirk, Peter
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958.1047 PET/S Seeds of terror | 958.1047 ZAE/M My life with the Taliban | 958.10471 RAJ/L Little America : the war within the war for Afghanistan | 958.41 HOP/S Setting the East ablaze : on secret service in Bolshevik Asia Author: Hopkirk, Peter | 959 OBJ Objects and frontiers in modern Asia : between the Mekong and the Indus | 959 PRA/H History of Southeast Asia | 959 RAJ/A Archaeological history of south Asia |
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.'
Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed.
Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive.
Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.
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