• Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924

    Author(s):
    Jargal Badagarov, Ivan Sablin (see profile) , Irina Sodnomova
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    ASEEES Convention, Central Asian Studies, Soviet and Russian history and culture
    Subject(s):
    History, Mongolia, Soviet Union, China, Socialism, Intellectual life
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Parliament, Constitution, Democracy, Russia, China, Imperial (up to 1911), Intellectual history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/2bq2-ek11
    Abstract:
    The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the extraconstitutional party authorities. The establishment of this sham and nominal parliamentary system was a consequence of the Bolshevik new imperialism, the inclusion of the Mongolian People’s Republic into the informal Soviet empire, which occurred through both military control and structural adjustments under the supervision of the Communist International. The 1924 Mongolian Constitution, however, was not a mere copy of its Soviet 1918 and 1924 counterparts but a transimperial document. In its text and especially in the history of its making, it reflected the entangled imperial transformations of the Russian and Qing empires and featured both indigenous (Khalkha and Buryad-Mongol) agency and vernacular political discourses. Khural existed as a nonrepresentative yet deliberative consultative assembly in 1914–1919, while Tsebeen Jamtsarano attempted to make a Mongolian khural one of the world’s many parliaments, even though his draft constitution was affected by the practices of revolutionary Russia.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670714-011
    Publisher:
    Routledge
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Book Title:
    Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia Nation, Identity, and Culture
    Author/Editor:
    Simon Wickhamsmith, Phillip P. Marzluf
    Chapter:
    2
    Page Range:
    14 - 42
    ISBN:
    9780367350598
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution

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