Historical Dictionary of Mongolia (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East)

by Alan J. K. Sanders

"After 230 years of Manchu rule, a brief period of autonomy, and 80 years as the first Soviet satellite, the Mongolian state founded by Genghis Khan finally regained its independence in 1990. While attempting to build a democratic nation and market economy on the ruins of a collapsed communist regime, Mongolia has also been re-examining its cultural heritage. This new edition of Alan J.K. Sanders's Historical Dictionary of Mongolia emphasized developments over the first ten years of Mongolia's emergence as a fully fledged member of the global community, the economic and political relationship with her immediate neighbors (China and Russia), and her developing ties with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations." "Sanders carefully details the key issues in Mongolia's struggle to build a democracy, including the birth of multi-party politics and the struggle for power between the idealistic but inexperienced young nationalists and the influential but unreformed commu