The policy of the Comintern in Mongolia
The foreign policy course of Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s of the 20th century was aimed at spreading the ideas of the world revolution and the struggle against international imperialism. In connection with the defeat of the revolutionary movement in Europe, the Asian direction of revolutionization became the most promising. The Comintern acted as a conductor of the ideas of the world revolution to the East, first of all, China. In the policy of the Comintern, Mongolia played an important role in promoting revolutionary ideas using the national liberation movement of Mongolian peoples, panmongolism. Later, as the international situation changed, the Comintern concentrated its work on strengthening its own positions in supporting the «left» in the domestic political struggle, and in realizing plans for non-capitalist development in Mongolia. Today, in the Russian and Mongolian historiography, the role of the Comintern in Mongolia is viewed ambiguously and has a contradictory character, in connection with authoritarian methods of management, repression, participation in foreign policy struggle. On the other hand, the Comintern played a certain role in strengthening the country's defense capability and developing Soviet-Mongolian relationss.