MODERN MONGOLIA: A CONCISE HISTORY by Tsedendamdyn Batbayar (Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Center for Scientific and Technological Studies, 1996) Set between Russia and China, and allied with the Soviet Union for nearly seventy years, Mongolia was long one of the most remote countries on earth for Western scholars. Few scholars were able to visit, and what little information was available was tightly controlled by the communist state. Since 1990, however, successive governments have distanced themselves from communism and have launched rapid political and economic liberalization. A new constitution...
