The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Ottoman Empire & Further East: Then to Now East of Constantinople/Istanbul Areas Within The USSR
RCC7899
Setting the East Ablaze. Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
ISBN
0393019438
Purchase Price
£28.20 (second hand)
Date Purchased
March 15, 2020
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Co (1985, New York & London)
Notes
This book was originally published in 1984 by John Murray, London. It tells, for the first time, the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to "set the East ablaze" with the gospel of Marxism. It is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarisms and civil war - and sometimes pure farce, whose echoes still are present in places like Afghanistan. Imperial India was one of Lenin's main targets and it was in great part this aim which led to the new regime's operations in the region. The legendary Colonel Bailey of the British Indian Secret Service plays a central role in this story, which as well as being important for the study of what happened in the region in the period following the war (and thus is part of our remit in constructing the Collection) , is a "ripping yarn" of the very best sort.
0393019438
Purchase Price
£28.20 (second hand)
Date Purchased
March 15, 2020
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Co (1985, New York & London)
Notes
This book was originally published in 1984 by John Murray, London. It tells, for the first time, the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to "set the East ablaze" with the gospel of Marxism. It is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarisms and civil war - and sometimes pure farce, whose echoes still are present in places like Afghanistan. Imperial India was one of Lenin's main targets and it was in great part this aim which led to the new regime's operations in the region. The legendary Colonel Bailey of the British Indian Secret Service plays a central role in this story, which as well as being important for the study of what happened in the region in the period following the war (and thus is part of our remit in constructing the Collection) , is a "ripping yarn" of the very best sort.