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This is a somewhat rare book, as I discovered when I tried to find some dust jacket text to add to the GR listing - my copy was $3 sans-dust-jacket from a second hand book shop full of scrappy and dusty old books (my favourite kind, although I love a dust jacket).
Published in 1935, written by a Russian who had lived in Kashgar for many years, as he describes being Moved On!, as per this excerpt on P115:
By the spring of 1924 it had become abundantly clear that the Pekin Government was hand and glove with the Soviets. Once these were recognized by the Chinese, the appearance of a Bolshevik Consulate in Kashgar was inevitable, with its usual crowd of myrmidons, agents of the OGPU, agitators and spies. There was no doubt about it. My respite was over. I was moved on.It would be too dangerous to remain in Chinese territory, as I would be assassinated, or at least flung into a Chinese prison and conveyed secretly to the socialistic paradise. In the neighbouring Chinese province of Kulja or Ili, where a gang of Bolsheviks had made their appearance in the guise of a commercial mission, there had been several such cases. So my friends urged me to make for India, over the [...] Karakoram, the mountain crests of the Kuen Lun, and the Himalayas.
The Land of Lost Civilization
Moved On!
Hunted Through Central Asia
Setting the East Ablaze