Title: Setting the East Ablaze
Subtitle: Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia
First published: 1984
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.
Subjects: Foreign relations, Politics and government, Secret service, soviet union, Lenin, vladimir ilich, 1870-1924, Soviet union, foreign relations, asia, New York Times reviewed
Places: Soviet Union, Central Asia, Great Britain
Time periods: 1917-1945