Mongolian People's Republic

[MarxEngelsLeninStalinMao]

What was the Mongolian People's Republic like? Is there nostalgia for socialism in Mongolia today?

[Crabbensmasher]

From what I've heard, it was a pretty standard satellite state. There were complaints about the traditional lifestyle of many herders disappearing, so that was always a source of tension. Apart from that, I think most people just looked at the material benefits of it. Soviet money was fueled into resource exploration and exploitation (they have large oil deposits), which created new jobs. Also, there was an influx of Russian workers to help in the factories, petroleum industry, etc. All this compounded to make it far wealthier than it was before. Despite that, I think it was still one of the poorer satellite states.

Today, there's a lot of optimism stemming from further mineral exploitation. The economy is changing rapidly, and I get the feeling most people are looking forward instead of looking back. Seems like kind of a Chinese Deng-esque type of situation.

Is that a fair assessment?

[Killer Enigma]

Socialism fell hard in Mongolia. It's a major center for far-right and skinhead groups (calling them fascist may give them too much credit, but they're growing in influence). There's a number of books on Mongolia from the era, none of them very good. It wasn't a Soviet satellite as many claim. Just a very underdeveloped nation that had a revolution and tried building socialism with the help of the USSR.

[Mather]

The Mongolian People's Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic) was a socialist state that existed from 1924-1992. It's 'socialism' followed whatever line the Soviet Union took at any particular time from Stalinism in the 30s to the 50s, to the post-Stalinist line taken by Khrushchev and Brezhnev after 1956. During the Sino-Soviet split Mongolia took the Soviet side.

The problems associated with the type of 'socialism' that existed in Mongolia was also evident in all the other Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union itself. The one good thing to have come out of the Mongolian People's Republic was it's program of industrialisation and modernisation, which led to the creation and development of a Mongolian working class. This development means that the material conditions that are necessary for proletarian struggle and communism, now exist. This was not the case when the Mongolian People's Republic was founded in 1924.