Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia
This book reexamines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolias population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance.
Simon Wickhamsmith is a lecturer in English at Rutgers University, USA, and a translator and scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century Mongolian literature.
Phillip P. Marzluf is a professor of English at Kansas State University, USA.
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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia
Nation, Identity, and Culture
Edited by Simon Wickhamsmith and Phillip P. Marzluf
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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia
Nation, Identity, and Culture
Edited by Simon Wickhamsmith and Phillip P. Marzluf
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In transliterating Mongol Bichig and Cyrillic, we have used in both cases the Tibet and Himalayan Library system, with the exception of the Cyrillic B, which we transliterate with V. Tibetan transliteration follows the most-frequently used standard, established by Turrell Wylie, and Russian is transliterated according to the ALA-LC system.
Mongolian names are given using the ovog (patronymic or, occasionally, matronymic) initial, followed by the given name. Thus, the name of Choibalsan, who took his mothers name, Khorloo, for his ovog name, is written Kh. Choibalsan and indexed as Choibalsan, Kh.
Ariell Ahearn is currently a departmental lecturer and course director for the MSc/MPhil in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on contemporary pastoralist livelihoods and forms of work in Mongolia, with particular attention to understanding how pastoralists negotiate their rights to practice mobility and engage as political actors on multiple scales. Recently her work in Mongolia has become increasingly focused on herdermine interactions and transformations in the rural economy (including land, livestock, and infrastructure).
Jargal Badagarov is a specialist in Mongolic historical linguistics. His Ph.D. thesis (2013) was on the comparison of the Dagur and Buryad languages in diachronic perspective. During the last two decades, he has conducted numerous expeditions to explore Mongolic languages and dialects in Mongolia, China, and the Russian Federation and has been developing language tools for Buryad and other Mongolic and Altaic languages. Currently he is conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Heidelberg on the development of political terminology in Mongolian within the European Research Council project, Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 19052005.
Holly R. Barcus is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography at Macalester College. Barcus research interests include migration, ethnicity, and environment in remote rural regions across the globe. She is Associate Editor of the
