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Setting The East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream Of An Empire In Europe

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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.

Product Overview
ISBN 9781473651111
Categories History, MIXnMATCH, New Arrivals, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities
Author(s) Peter Hopkirk
Publisher John Murray Publishers Ltd
Pages 272
Format Paperback
Dimensions 19.6cm x 2cm x 13cm
Weight 0.196 kg