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001			ASIN0719564506
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008			140609s2006 xxu eng d
020			_a0719564506 (paperback) _c$16.95
020			_a9780719564505 (paperback)
100	1		_aHopkirk, Peter.
245	1	0	_aSetting the east ablaze : _blenin's dream of an empire in asia / _cPeter Hopkirk.
250			_aReprint ed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bJohn Murray, _c1976.
300			_a272 p. ; _c20 cm.
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
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