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Herdsman to Statesman
The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia
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2010
Summary
This compelling autobiography encapsulates the profound changes that transformed the underdeveloped world in the twentieth century. Jamsrangiin Sambuu, born in 1895 to a herder family in a remote region of Mongolia, rose to become ambassador and eventually president of a haltingly industrialized and urbanized Communist country. In the process, he came to know Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and other leading figures. Sambuu relates horrifying vignettes of the harsh and oppressive rule over Mongolia by the Chinese, the Manchus, and the Mongolian nobility and lamas until 1911. Yet his stories of exploitation and torture are balanced by a lively, picturesque, and informative portrait of traditional herding life, including diet, popular religion, marital ceremonies, and medicine.
Sambuu relates how his visceral hatred of the avaricious Mongolian Buddhist monks and nobles prompted him to join the Communist movement in the early 1920s. Valued for his education and work ethic, he rose rapidly in the Party bureaucracy, becoming ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II and to North Korea during the Korean War. Recounting his eventful diplomatic career, Sambuu paints vivid portraits of Stalin, Anastas Mikoyan, and other prominent Soviet leaders. Enriched by a thoughtful introduction by leading scholar Morris Rossabi that sets the historical stage, this life story of a still-beloved Mongolian illuminates a world few in the West have seen.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0750-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0752-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
160
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Prefatory Note No access
Jamsrangiin Sambuu and HisAutobiography: Paths of Life No access Pages 1 - 20
Preface No access
Chapter 1. My Ignorant Simple Childhood No access
Chapter 2. Becoming Acquainted with the Hardships of Life No access
Chapter 3. Loving Lessons from My Parents No access
Chapter 4. Living at the Official Ministry for Two Months No access
Chapter 5. Every Man Is Different No access
Chapter 6. The Strong One Is Always Right No access
Chapter 7. Time to Begin Lending a Hand with the Writing Work No access
Chapter 8. How I Became a Family Man No access
Chapter 9. Setting Out by Horseback Armed against the Occupier No access
Chapter 10. The Road to Educating the People through the Party No access
Chapter 11. Carrying Out the Responsibility of Trust No access
Chapter 12. Representing Our Government to Our Friendly Neighbor No access
Chapter 13. The Soviet Union Breaks Up an Attack No access
Chapter 14. Examining a Firm Friendship in the Heat of an Historic Struggle No access
Chapter 15. The End of the Harmful War and the Beginning of Peace Time No access
Chapter 16. An Honorable Task for the People and the Country No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 149 - 152
Index No access Pages 153 - 158
About the Editor and Translator No access Pages 159 - 160
