Book Description
An examination of the relationships between politics and historical memory after the collapse of socialist rule in Mongolia.

About the Author
Christopher Kaplonski, affiliated to the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge, has carried out extensive research in post-socialist Mongolia where he has worked since the early 1990s.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Based on extensive field research spanning over a decade, Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia is the first English-language account of the Mongolian democratic revolution. Its questioning of preconceptions about socialist control over identity and the writing of history will be of great interest to those studying culture, history and memory, as well as those in the field of Mongolian and Post Soviet Studies.

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