Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists

by Morris Rossabi

Book Overview

Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies--including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank--for help in compensating for the economic changes caused by disruptions in the communist world. Modern Mongolia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520244192
• ISBN13: 9780520244191
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"