Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Sino-Russian Competition over Outer Mongolia; China's “New Administration” in Mongolia; Russian Merchants in Mongolia: The 1910 Moscow Trade Expedition; Russian Diplomats and Mongol Independence, 1911–1915; The Buriat Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev; II: International Diplomacy Concerning Outer Mongolia; Aspects of Soviet-Mongolian Relations, 1929–1939; The Final Consolidation of the USSR's Sphere of Interest in Outer Mongolia; Sino-Soviet Diplomacy and the Second Partition of Mongolia, 1945–1946; Mongolia and Japan in 1945–1995: A Half Century Reconsidered; III: Mongolia Today; A Survey of the Mongols in Present-Day China: Perspectives on Demography and Culture Change; Mobility, Technology, and Decollectivization of Pastoralism in Mongolia; The Eight-hundredth Anniversary of Chinggis Khan: The Revival and Suppression of Mongolian National Consciousness; Nationalism, Elites, and Mongolia's Rapid Transformation; Epilogue

About the Author

Stephen Kotkin, Bruce Allen Elleman