Setting the East ablaze
Subtitle: Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Asia, Central -- Politics and government.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Description: This book tells the story of the Bolshevik attempt, between the two world wars, "to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. It is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war..."--Flyleaf.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [243]-245.
Includes index.