... point for studying the MPR, and in themselves make the price of the book a bargain. Gol'man discusses a large number of authors and touches upon a wide variety of topics in this short book. The reviewer does not intend to discuss all of these, but rather to suggest those points of the book that should...

... Compilation]. Compiled by the State Central Statistical Office of the MPR [ D. Batsukh and D. Gombozhav , Editors ]. Ulan Bator , 1960 . 191 . 236 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Bnmau-yn 1921-1958 Onuudyn uls Ardyn Aj Ahuy Soyolyn Hogjilt; Statistikiyn Emhetgel [Development of the National Economy...

... of the MPR by falsifying the main problems of the post-revolutionary development." Unfortunately, Gol'man devotes too much attention to this latter group of writers whose analysis of the Mongolian experience is generally superficial. While Lattimore's work is discussed in some detail, the polemical aspects...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 322 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES old Royal Cities upriver thirty-five miles to the (MPR), published between 1966 and 1969 by new site, Baghdad: a very prominent act, A.D. the Academy of Sciences of that country. It fol- 762 (p. 83). lows...

..., 1921 ). 3 Maiskii , p. 284 . 4 Maiskii , p. 282 . 5 Ia. Ryzhik, “Khoziaistvennoe i kulturnoe stroitel'stvo Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki” [“Economic and Cultural Construction in the MPR”], Planovoe khoziaistvo ( 1936 ), No. 6, pp. 170 – 177...

... , 1858 ) , Bawden C. R. , The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobči ( Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1955 ). 12 The Altan Tobči by Lubsan-Danzan was published in 1937 by the Committee of Sciences of the MPR, and reproduced as Altan Tobči. A Brief History of the Mongols by bsTanjin...

... of the Mongolian Peoples Republic (MPR) and the economic development of the country. The author is direct in describing Moscow's special interests and its role in the establishment of the MPR in 1921. The Mongolian "leaders" of the time resemble putty in the Bolsheviks' hands. "They had no precise image...

... of the neglected first communist revolution in Asia, from which the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR) emerged in the 1920s as the first satellite in the Soviet system and a prototype for those that later emerged in Eastern Europe. This fifth book in a new Hoover Institution series on the histories of the sixteen...

...." The focus is on attitudes and interaction, against a background of historical and other factors. The arrangement is chronological, beginning with a chapter on the "Pre-Entry Period" and ending with one on present (late 1964) prospects. Rupen's presentation for the MPR is informative and solidly based...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES is a well written and useful study of the establishment of the Mongolian Peoples Republic (MPR) and the economic development of the country. The author is direct in describing Moscow's special interests and its role in the establishment of the MPR in 1921. The Mongolian "leaders...

.... Cf. N. N. Poppe, “Mongolovedenie v SSSR” [“Mongolian Studies in the USSR”], Vestnik instituta po izucheniyu istorii i kul'luri SSSR [Journal of the Institute for Study of the History and Culture of the USSR], No . 1 (14) (Munich, 1955), pp. 25–43; and Rupen rev. of Istoriya MNR [History of the MPR...

... : University of California Press , 1977 . xix, 388 pp. Notes and References, Index. $15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS 323 although the Kuomintang government recognized the MPR's independence on 5 January 1946, it later rescinded the decision...

..." rather than specifics, and concludes that the Mongols have gained self-confidence, that the USSR's aid program in the MPR has been a model of success, that America is popular in Mongolia, and that the U. S. should recognize the MPR. He believes that the Mongolian Government enjoys widespread popularity...

...Gerald D. Berreman Dusk and Dawn in Village India . By Zahir Ahmed . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1965 . xv, 144 pp. Epilogue, Glossary. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 307 MPR meant only how much control...

... should be updated every few years. As a comprehensive reference guide on a remote nation however, it will appeal only to those few who may need detailed information on the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR). In view of Mongolia's sparse contacts outside Eastern Europe, tourist agents and businessmen...

.... Nevertheless, the bibliography and the annotated footnotes at the end of the preface and each of the book's three chapters make a good starting point for studying the MPR, and in themselves make the price of the book a bargain. Gol'man discusses a large number of authors and touches upon a wide variety...

... literature on the subject. The topic of Binnick's book is the syntax of Modern Mongolian as found in sources written in the official Cyrillic orthography of the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR); this has been supplemented by forms supplied orally by Yidamjab Meng, a native speaker of Chakhar Mongolian...

... self-confidence, that the USSR's aid program in the MPR has been a model of success, that America is popular in Mongolia, and that the U. S. should recognize the MPR. He believes that the Mongolian Government enjoys widespread popularity and support among the people, as does the alliance with the USSR...

...Edwin O. Reischauer BOOK REVIEWS 857 plishments of the MPR's economic plans, is difficult to ascertain because of the Bloc's manipulation of such statistics for political purposes. In this regard, the absence of footnotes, which clearly identify sources, is a great disservice. The section...

... Ordos vigilantes viewed the Young Mongols as uprooted, sinicized Mongols, only to be reciprocated by the latter, who called them backward country bumpkins gave rise to their common veneration of the newly independent Mongolian People s Republic (MPR) as a more authentic and transcendent alternative. I...