
` Let us turn our faces towards Asia`, exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. ` The East will help us conquer the West.` Peter Hopkirk`s book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady 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. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries & Chinese warlords
- as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue & treachery, barbarism & civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.