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| Article name | Mongolia at the Beginning of the XXI Century: Faces of Democracy |
| Authors | Kuras L.V. Doctor of History, Professor, kuraslv@yandex.ru |
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| Section | ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| UDK | 327(517.3) |
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| Annotation | The article examines the social and political transformation in Mongolia from the mid-1980s, after the administration of Yu. Tsedenbal, leader of the Mongolian Communist party, to the recent presidential elections decisively won by Ts. Elbegdorzh. At the same time, the article traces the process of party construction and creation of the multi-party system as a political foundation of the state and the evolution of the Mongolian People’s Workers’ Party from Marxism to social democracy. In its turn, all this created an illusion of an unlimited freedom within the Mongolian society. At the same time this process was accompanied by uncompromising struggle of rivaling political forces, followed by the deterioration of the economic situation in the country, mass unemployment, growing grievances of the masses over the absence of real democratic freedoms and weakening of Mongolia’s international position. On the other hand, a multi-party system and solid democratic institutions were created and the Mongolian society became open to the civilized world. However, the inter-partisan struggle of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and Democratic Party led to the events of July 2008 known as the «Yurt Revolution». They had a bad publicity and as a result, the presidential decree declared emergency situation in the capital. The roots of this drama can be felt even now. They appear in a growing social differentiation of the Mongolian society, low living standards of a large portion of the population, corruption and unemployment, political rivalry of the parties and political forces backing them for a right to distribute benefits from mining, weakness and vulnerability of relatively young democratic institutions. |
| Key words | USSR, Mongolian People’s Republic, CPSU, MPWP, Mongolia, Russia, transformation, party construction, parliament, elections, Marxism, social democracy |
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