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

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About Peter Hopkirk

Peter Hopkirk was a British author and journalist who wrote narrative histories of Central Asia and the rivalries of empires across it.

Before turning to books he worked as a foreign correspondent and travelled widely through the regions he later wrote about. Setting the East Ablaze follows the attempt to carry revolution into Asia after 1917.

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