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| #403569 in Books | John Murray | 2006-03-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.75 x.60 x5.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Central Asia saturation, with a Balkan detour|By Borrowed Blue|Peter Hopkirk's books on Central Asia are very good. Begin with The Great Game, go on to On Secret Service East of Constantinople, and follow with Setting the East Ablaze. Hopkirk was apparently inspired by Fitzroy MacLean's Eastern Approaches, to do much research and write his own books set in Central Asia. MacL|.com |Amid the sand and rock of Central Asia, Russia and England spent much of the 19th century playing what historians have come to call the Great Game: the struggle for control over transcontinental routes from Europe to the Far East. When the Bolsheviks ca
'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.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Setting the East Ablaze | Peter Hopkirk.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
