Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia

Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia image
ISBN-10:

0393019438

ISBN-13:

9780393019438

Author(s): HOPKIRK, Peter
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1985
Format: Hardcover, 252 pages
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Description:

"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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