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Zinoviev while heading a meeting in Azerbaijan in 1920. Getty images


The ‘Autumn of Sorrows’ for Russia’s Muslims

The ‘Autumn of Sorrows’ for Russia’s Muslims

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...