Mongolia has often been treated in Western scholarly literature as an appendage of Russia or China. In this history, Julia Nordby avoids this approach and instead focuses on Mongol aspirations of statehood and nationhood in an attempt to describe events from the Mongolian point of view. The extent to which Mongolian culture, religion and the nomadic way of life have survived in a society greatly influenced by its communist neighbours also features strongly, as does the exploitation by the Mongols of Russo-Chinese rivalries. In July 1990 the first multi-party elections were held, and as this new deomocracy turns increasingly to the outside world for economic and political assistance, so does that world need to understand the nature of modern Mongol society. It is the purpose of this book to fulfil that need.
- ISBN10 1850651787
- ISBN13 9781850651789
- Publish Date 1 March 2001
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 9 December 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Language English