In Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, Professor Ivan Sablin of St. Petersburg's Higher School of Economics attempts a new narrative of Buryat and South Siberian history in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Sablin's research is based on a strong foundation of geographical information systems data, which positively influenced both his conception of Buryat ethno-nationalism and his presentation of an extremely turbulent period of history. As may be seen from the dates selected in the title, which extend from the Khalkha Mongolian declaration of independence from the Qing in 1911 to the proclamation of the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924, Sablin also has ambitions to bring Khalkha or “Outer” Mongolia and southern Siberia's Buryats into a single view. It must be said, however, that the coverage of events in Mongolia is rather cursory, and mostly serves as a contrast with the much more detailed picture of southern Siberia....

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