Bibliograph

Politics and literature in Mongolia (1921-1948), Simon Wickhamsmith

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Label

Politics and literature in Mongolia (1921-1948), Simon Wickhamsmith

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Politics and literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1184460867

Responsibility statement

Simon Wickhamsmith

Series statement

North East Asian studiesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

This study investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolia's early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers' Congress, held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent among the population, and questions of religion and tradition led to personal and ideological conflict among the intelligentsia and, in many cases, to trials and executions. Using primary texts, many of them translated into English for the first time, Simon Wickhamsmith shows the role played by the literary arts - poetry, fiction and drama - in the complex development of the new society--, Provided by publisher

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