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Mongolia in the Twentieth Century

Mongolia in the Twentieth Century( )
Author: Kotkin, Stephen
Elleman, Bruce Allen
ISBN:978-0-7656-0535-1
Publication Date:Jan 1999
Publisher:M. E. Sharpe Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $125.95
Book Description:

The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination. Mikhail Gorbachev began the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Mongolia in 1989, a process completed in 1992. By 1996 a coalition of opposition parties triumphed in national elections, and...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: History / Asia / Central Asia
Political Science / International Relations / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.692 cm
Book Weight:0.568 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kotkin, Stephen. (Author)


Stephen Mark Kotkin was born on February 17, 1959. He is a historian, academic and author. Kotkin graduated from the University of Rochester in 1981 with a B.A. in English. He studied Russian and Soviet history under Reginald E. Zelnik and Martin Malia at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his M.A. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1988, both in history. Starting in 1986, Kotkin traveled to the former Soviet Union several times for academic research and fellowships. He was a visiting scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2012). He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1989, and was the director of in Russian and Eurasian Studies Program for 13 years (1995-2008). He is currently the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton. He is also a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Biography with his title Stalin - Vol. 1 : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928.

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