Setting the East Ablaze
Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
$38.11
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
‘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 Britis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564505 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719564506 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Not a |
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‘The stuff of a dozen adventure movies … everything a ripping good yarn should be’– New York Times
The stuff of a dozen adventure movies … everything a ripping good yarn should be - New York Times
A classic example of truth outpacing fiction - Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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