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Morris Rossabi. Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists.(Book review)
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Morris Rossabi. Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xx, 397 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-520-24399-4. Paperback X24-95, ISBN 0-520-24419-2.
Mongolia, sometimes referred to as "the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it," is a landlocked nation where East meets West, nomadism meets agriculture, Lamaism meets shamanism, and communist memory meets the reality of privatization. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s enabled the Mongols to become ...
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