I.Y. MOROSOVA. SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONS IN ASIA. THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MONGOLIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. L. -N.Y.: Routledge, 2009. 173 p.
(Central Aзian Studies)*
The social history of Mongolia in the 20th century is full of drama: the country has experienced three revolutions, three changes in the social system, and five forms of government. An attempt to understand and objectively present the process of social transformation of Mongolian society in these conditions is an honor for any researcher, especially a young one, such as the author of the reviewed monograph Irina Morozova. A graduate of the Mongolian Department of the Faculty of History and Philology of the Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University, she has already shown herself to be a serious and creative scientist with an impressive experience in research and teaching. Even before the brilliant defense of her Ph. D. thesis on a related topic at the ISAA in 2002, which formed the basis of six of the eight chapters of this work in a significantly expanded, updated and expanded form, she published the monograph "The Comintern and the Revolution in Mongolia" (Cambridge, 2002) in English and began lecturing on Central Asian problems. Asia and Mongolia. Morozova is currently a lecturer at Moscow State University and at the same time a researcher at the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University.
To date, Morozova has two monographs, more than a dozen analytical articles, developments, reviews, reports on numerous scientific forums and other publications in her scientific luggage. Their authors are characterized by a deep insight into the subject of research, the ability to identify, collect, analyze and summarize a huge amount of factual material, not least field material, and the ability to generate new ideas and positions.
These features of I. Y. Morozova's creative handwriting are reflected in the reviewed monograph. Its advantages primarily lie in a solid source and historio ...
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