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The ‘Autumn of Sorrows’ for Russia’s Muslims

The ‘Autumn of Sorrows’ for Russia’s Muslims

by | Oct 11, 2017 | Features

London- “Set the East ablaze!” This was the brief order that the leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Ilycyh Ulianov, alias Lenin, gave to Zinoviev when he sent him on a mission to mobilize the Muslim subjects of the Russian Empire in support of the October...