In this Book
- The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
Before becoming the second socialist country in the world (after the Soviet Union) in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist feudal theocracy. Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people was one of the most important challenges faced by the new socialist government. It would take almost a decade and a half to resolve the “lama question,” and it would be answered with brutality, destruction, and mass killings. Chris Kaplonski examines this critical, violent time in the development of Mongolia as a nation-state and its ongoing struggle for independence and recognition in the twentieth century. Kaplonski draws on a decade of research and archival resources to investigate the problematic relationships between religion and politics and geopolitics and biopolitics in early socialist Mongolia, as well as the multitude of state actions that preceded state brutality.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Note on Transliteration
- pp. xi-xii
- Dramatis Personae and Terms
- pp. xiii-xvii
- Map of Mongolian Provinces
- p. xviii
- 2. The Geopolitics of Exception
- pp. 45-62
- Part I. The First Technology of Exception: The Construction of the New
- 4. Counting (on) the Living Gods
- pp. 85-103
- 6. Rebellions, War, and Aftermaths
- pp. 122-140
- Part II. The Second Technology of Exception: Ineffective Persuasions and Accommodation
- Part III. The Third Technology of Exception: The Turn to Violence, Resignation, and Defeat
- Reference List
- pp. 241-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824838577
Related ISBN(s)
9780824838560
MARC Record
OCLC
929790827
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2015-11-19
Language
English
Open Access
No