Modern Mongolia: From Khans To Commissars To Capitalists - Hardcover

Rossabi, Morris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520243994 ISBN 13: 9780520243996

Publisher: University of California Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 is the best-informed and most thorough account to date of the political economy of Mongolia during the past decade. In it, Morris Rossabi explores the effects of the withdrawal of Soviet assistance, the role of international financial agencies in supporting a pure market economy, and the ways that new policies have led to greater political freedom but also to unemployment, poverty, increasingly inequitable distribution of income, and deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society.Rossabi demonstrat

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Morris Rossabi is Professor of History at the City University of New York and Adjunct Professor of East and Inner Asian History at Columbia University. Among his books are Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers (2004), Bounty from the Sheep (2000), Voyager from Xanadu (1992), Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (California, 1988), and China among Equals (California, 1983).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0520243994
• ISBN 13: 9780520243996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 418