ABSTRACT
Revolutionary Mongolia and the USSR The history of the first two decades after the revolution of 192. I is generally divided by Mongol historians into three periods. The years up to 192.4 were a period of preparation for the proclamation of the republic, years of consolidation and preparation. Some radical reforms were planned, but for the time being it was impracticable to put them into effect. Mter the remnants of the invading white Russians had been mopped up, efforts were directed mainly towards the task of building up a rudimentary party organization in the countryside, and planning elective local government organs. The next period, from the death of the Khutuktu and the proclamation of the People's Republic in 192.4 up to the year 1932., is usually described, somewhat euphemistically, as that of 'the struggle for the maintenance of the General Line of the Party'. From 1932. to 1940 Mongolia is said to have been engaged in 'resolutely following the path of noncapitalist development'. The actual form of words used to describe these two latter periods may vary somewhat, but in all cases the dividing point is the year 1932., by which time Mongolia is supposed to have laid the foundations of the struggle for the liquidation of the economic power of the feudal class, and to have detached itself from the economy of the capitalist world. There is some measure of truth in this periodization, but it needs a certain naivete on the part of the inquirer to accept this picture with all its implications, and if one looks at Mongolia'S recent history from outside the rigid scheme imposed by communist dogma, it seems far more rational to take 192.8, the year of the decisive Seventh Party Congress, as marking the watershed.
