ABSTRACT
Thus far, the Seventh MNRP Congress and the Fifth Great Khural drew a distinction between two stages of social transformation in Mongolia. The defeat of the ‘rightists’ at the Congress and the standing ovation to the ‘left majority’ of the Khural signified the completion of the redivision of power among the Mongolian elite. However, as pointed out previously, a great gap existed between life in the capital and in the hödöö, while the situation in distant regions remained completely unchanged. Thus, the new left leaders needed to promote their programme among the masses, to ‘win hearts’, and by doing that guarantee the programme’s continuity and, consequently, their group’s future. Regarding ‘work for the future’, the Presidium of the CC of the MPRP and the government relied on the support, experience and instructions of the USSR, with which an alliance was absolutely indispensable to the MPR in light of the prospective threat of Japan. The years 1929-1932 passed in Mongolia to the sound of the slogans of expropriation and confiscation of the property of the former wealthy strata of the population, primarily, the noyon and lamas. Such moments in history are always accompanied by the suffering of all people and crimes by the executive branches. Witnesses and participants of these events typically do not like remembering them.1
