ABSTRACT
The Russian historians Kozin and Iakbovskii were in charge of writing the section on the history of Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire. The Soviet Russian scholars intervened to recast Mongolian history because both the Mongol Empire and Chinggis Khan represented national humiliation and the two-century-long Mongol rule of Russia, which was denounced as the “Tatar-Mongol Yoke”. In 1962, a purge occurred when Mongolia was to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the birth of Chinggis Khan. In spite of today’s glorification, Chinggis Khan was, supposedly, almost forgotten when Mongolia started to modernize after they gained independence from the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Sengiin Erdene, a popular novelist, testified to a Japanese journalist that the 800th anniversary inspired him to write about Chinggis Khan. The image of a “human Chinggis” was fostered among Mongolian intellectuals through their education in scientific socialism from Soviet Russians.
