Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia

by Peter Hopkirk

Book Overview

A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME

In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his revolutionary comrades tried, in the period between the two world wars, to set the East ablaze with their heady new gospel of Marxism. Their dream was to "liberate" the whole of Asia, and their starting point was British India, the richest of all imperial possessions.

The bloody struggle that ensued, the full story of which has never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568361025
• ISBN13: 9781568361024
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 5.6"