Setting the East ablaze : on secret service in bolshevik Asia
This is the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to set the East ablaze with the new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy, undeclared war followed.
Print Book, English, cop. 1984
Oxfors University Press, Oxford, New York, cop. 1984
X, 252 p.; 20 cm.
9780192802125, 0192802127
1041448193
Prologue; 1. 'An Absolutely First-Class Man...'; 2. The Strange Adventures of a Butterfly Collector; 3. Bailey Vanishes; 4. The Executioner; 5. Hunted; 6. Bailey Joins the Soviet Secret Service; 7. 'To Set the East Ablaze'; 8. 'The Army of God'; 9. The Bloody Baron; 10. 'An Avenue of Gallows'; 11. The Last Stand of Enver Pasha; 12. Curzon's Ultimatum; 13. 'Squeezed Out Like a Lemon'; 14. Skulduggery on the Silk Road; 15. A Lady Vanishes; 16. The Last of the Central Asian Dreamers; 17. The New Bogy-Men of the East; 18. The East Fails to Ignite; Bibliography of Principal Sources; Index