Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia Dennis Short and Yale University Art Gallery

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Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia Dennis Short and Yale University Art GalleryAs the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, `Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.' Pieced together from secret reports and eye witness memoirs, this is the first book to tell the story of the Bolshevik attempt to spread Marxism throughout Asia and its frustration by British Indian intelligence agents. An extraordinary story of the intrigue and treachery of the Great Game, its key players