Setting The East Ablaze

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0192802127

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Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time 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.Among the players in this new Great Game were British Indian intelligence officers and the professional revolutionaries of the Communist International. There were also Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive.Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose echoes continue to be heard in Central Asia today.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848547254

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Setting the East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

'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 and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0192851667

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Setting the East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

As the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.'

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0719564506

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Setting the East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

'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 and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802313

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Quest for Kim by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

Two authors' passion for India and the Great Game.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009667366

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Like Hidden Fire by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirkskillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I.

Author : Lt.-Col. F. M. Bailey
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789122367

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Mission to Tashkent by Lt.-Col. F. M. Bailey Pdf

Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there—that of half-hero, half-villain. In this remarkable book, which was first published in he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the dreaded Cheka. At one point, using a false identity, he actually joined the ranks of the latter, who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself. Told with almost breathtaking understatement, Bailey’s narrative—set in a region once more back in the headlines—reads like vintage Buchan. “...one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written.” Peter Hopkirk.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848547261

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Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0192802119

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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left, and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasurees and guarded by demons. In the early years of the 20th century, foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures, and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848546332

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On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased.

Author : Jen Sookfong Lee
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307369857

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The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee Pdf

A moving portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver’s Chinatown Sammy Chan was sure she’d escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister’s upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Abandoned by all four of her older sisters, jobless and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years old, first stepped on Canadian soil. The End of East weaves in and out of the past and the present, picking up the threads of the Chan family’s stories: Seid Quan, whose loneliness in this foreign country is profound even as he joins the Chinatown community; Shew Lin, whose hopes for her family are threatened by her own misguided actions; Pon Man, who struggles with obligation and desire; and Siu Sang, who tries to be the caregiver everyone expects, even as she feels herself unravelling. And in the background, five little girls grow up under the weight of family expectations. As the past unfolds around her, Sammy finds herself embroiled in a volatile mixture of a dangerous love affair, a difficult and duty-filled relationship with her mother, and the still-fresh memories of her father’s long illness. An exquisite and evocative debut from one of Canada’s bright new literary stars, The End of East sets family conflicts against the backdrop of Vancouver’s Chinatown – a city within a city where dreams are shattered as quickly as they’re built, and where history repeats itself through the generations.

Author : Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : MINN:319510021651526

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Hunted Through Central Asia by Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov Pdf

Author : Tim Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674724617

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Underground Asia by Tim Harper Pdf

A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi, and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence, and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities. Undergound Asia shows for the first time how Asia’s national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries’ struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia’s destiny to this day.

Author : Catherina Theodora Borland Macartney,Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1057334131

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An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan by Catherina Theodora Borland Macartney,Peter Hopkirk Pdf

Author : John Keay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029525998

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The Gilgit Game by John Keay Pdf