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Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building

By Ivan Sablin

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781138952201
DOI
10.4324/9781315667713
Google Books ID
gmCFCwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5299193 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe 24
Pages
235\235
Topic
History
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2017-05-24 10:34:17
Russia; Mongolia; Siberia; Russian Revolution; Bur

Description

The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian People’s Republic established a year later were supposed to represent a new model of transnational, post-national governance, incorporating religious and ethno-national independence, under the leadership of the coming global political party, the Communist International. The model, designed to be suitable for a socialist, decolonised Asia, and for a highly diverse population in a strategic border region, was intended to be globally applicable. This book, based on extensive original research, charts the development of these unusual governance arrangements, discusses how the ideologies of nationalism, socialism and Buddhism were borrowed from, and highlights the relevance of the subject for the present day world, where multiculturality, interconnectedness and interdependency become ever more complicated.

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