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Setting the East Ablaze
Peter Hopkirk · 1984 · 257 pages
Foreign relationsPolitics and governmentSecret service, soviet unionLenin, vladimir ilich, 1870-1924Soviet union, foreign relations, asiaNew York Times reviewed
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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.
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