Truth, history and politics in Mongolia
Subtitle: the memory of heroes
By: Christopher Kaplonski.
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Historiography -- Mongolia -- History -- 20th century.; Memory -- Social aspects -- Mongolia -- History -- 20th century.; Mongolia -- Historiography.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics, memory and identity; title: Ulaanbaatar, fieldwork and identity; title: Democracy comes to Mongolia; title: The symbols of democracy; title: The icebergs of history; title: Chinggis Khaan: Creating the uls; title: Defending and regaining the uls: Zanabazar and Shbaatar; title: Social memory and evocative transcripts.