Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia - Hardcover

Hopkirk, Peter

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9780719541025: Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719541026 ISBN 13: 9780719541025

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1984

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Good, EX-LIBRARY COPY. Has a good dustjacket, pale creamy/yellow cloth boards, library label on spine. There is a split between front cover and ffep, but it is not detached. The text block is clean and sound. Library stamps on front pagers Setting the East ablaze: Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia. x, 252 p., [19] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.. . Includes index. Bibliography: p. [243]-245.. .

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Review:

'The stuff of a dozen adventure movies . . . everything a ripping good yarn should be' (New York Times)

'A classic example of truth outpacing fiction' (Times Literary Supplement)

Book Description:

'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening Standard

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