Setting the East Ablaze

This is the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to set the East ablaze with the 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 Indian intelligence officers and the professional revolutionaries of the Communist International. There were also Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. This is a tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose echoes continue to be heard in Central Asia today

Author: Peter Hopkirk 

Publisher: Oxford

Released Date: 2001

ISBN: 9780192802125