page_title: Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav
section_title: Purge of Amar 1939
hierarchical_section_title: Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav / Stalinist repressions in Mongolia / Purge of Amar 1939
caption_attribution_description: English: Anandyn Amar (1886-1941), prime minister of Mongolia 1928-1930 and 1936-1939, president of Mongolia 1932 - 1936 Монгол: Анандын Амар
context_page_description: Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav was Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1932 to 1937 and served as Chief Secretary from 1933 to 1934. A central figure during the violent Stalinist repressions in Mongolia, Luvsansharav presided over arrests, torture, and executions of over 25,000 “enemies of the revolution” between 1937 and 1939 and was instrumental in the violent purges of Prime Ministers Peljidiin Genden and Anandyn Amar. He ultimately fell victim to the purges himself, arrested in 1939 on charges of counterrevolution and executed in Moscow in 1941.
context_section_description: By early 1939 Stalin was eager to replace the popular Prime Minister Anandyn Amar with Choibalsan, his new favorite.   At meetings with Soviet leadership in Moscow, Choibalsan was instructed to have Luvsansharav launch a propaganda campaign against Amar. Luvsansharav denounced Amar at an enlarged meeting of the MPRP Central Committee on March 6, 1939.  Once Choibalsan seconded the condemnation, opinions within the Central Committee rapidly turned against Amar, who was arrested on the spot and transported to Moscow where he was sentenced to death by a Soviet troika on July 10, 1941.
caption: Prime Minister Anandyn Amar
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