000			01256nam a2200181 4500
020			_a9780192851666
082			_a958.41 _bHOP/S
100			_aHopkirk, Peter
245			_a Setting the East ablaze : on secret service in Bolshevik Asia Author: Hopkirk, Peter
260			_aOxford _bOxford _c1984
300			_a252 p.
520			_a'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.
650			_aSoviet Union
650			_aCentral Asia
650			_asecret service
650			_aBritain
942			_cBK
999			_c62306 _d62306