Mongolian Memories: Modern Mongolia and Its Twentieth Century History

The author lived and traveled in Mongolia from 1999 to 2006 working in development projects rebuilding the country's financial sector. In the course of her work she visited businesses and interviewed herders in the middle of the steppe, in their ger (yurt) or in the car. She also spent a great deal of time with her Mongolian colleagues listening in fascination to their stories about growing up in a mixture of communist ideology and traditional pastoralist traditions and read up on recent history. Using anecdotes from the years she lived, worked and traveled in Mongolia and interviews with elderly Mongolians as an entry point, Mongolian Memories demonstrates how twentieth century events shaped Mongolian society and, to this day, the livelihoods and thinking of the Mongolians. The book's historical narrative starts at beginning of the 20th century, when what is now Mongolia was a remote territory under Manchu control called Outer Mongolia. The geopolitical turmoil of the period - fall