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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia By Peter Hopkirk accomplishment'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