The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people was one of the most important challenges faced by the new socialist government. It
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| Title | : | The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia |
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (483 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0824838564 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-30 |
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Before becoming the second socialist country in the world (after the Soviet Union) in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist feudal theocracy. Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people was one of the most important challenges faced by the new socialist government. It would take almost a decade and a half to resolve the “lama question,” and it would be answered with brutality, destruction, and mass killings. Chris Kaplonski examines this critical, violent time in the development of Mongolia as a nation-state and its ongoing struggle for independence and recognition in the twentieth century.Unlike most studies that explore violence as the primary means by which states deal with their opponents, The Lama Question argues that the decision to resort to violence in Mongolia was not a quick one; neither was it a long-term strategy nor an out-of control escalation of orders but the outcome of a complex ser
Editorial : The Lama Question ranks as one of the best books I have read on Soviet-era Mongolia, a book to be urged upon all those with an interest in the early revolutionary period, in the sociohistory of religion and, of course, in the disturbing and sadly ever-pertinent issue of state violence. (International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter)
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