People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

All 1 affiliations

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Mongolia 1
Background(set)
Any United States 50 Poland 43 Germany 37 Hungary 34 Czechia 21 Vietnam 15 Angola 10 Cambodia 9 France 9 Romania 9 Czechoslovakia 8 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 8 Yemen 8 Congo - Brazzaville 7 United Kingdom 7 Korea 6 Slovakia 6 Afghanistan 5 Albania 5 Cuba 5 Ethiopia 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 Benin 4 Bulgaria 4 Serbia 4 Croatia 3 Finland 3 Italy 3 Mozambique 3 Somalia 3 Chile 2 China 2 East Germany 2 Indonesia 2 Lithuania 2 Martinique 2 Russia 2 Slovenia 2 South Africa 2 Spain 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 Argentina 1 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Burkina Faso 1 DR Congo 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guinea-Bissau 1 Guyana 1 India 1 Japan 1 Mongolia 1 Myanmar 1 South Korea 1 Tajikistan 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1
Era(set)
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People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Background: Mongolia The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all

Tsedenbal

Цэдэнбал
Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Communism Mongolia Mongolia 1916–1991

Mongolian planning and Soviet ties

He framed Mongolia's bond with the USSR as an 'elder brother–younger brother' (akh düü) one, and at Stalin's funeral in 1953 asked that Mongolia join the Soviet Union, a request Moscow rejected.

He became Mongolia’s head of government in 1952 after Choibalsan. Close Soviet political and economic ties supported industrialization and cooperative herding. His long rule combined modernization with exclusion of rivals and external dependence, ending with his removal in 1984.

Career timeline
  • 1939Joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and became deputy finance minister.
  • 1940Elected general secretary of the party Central Committee; the country's number two leader.
  • 1941–1945Head of the Political Directorate and deputy commander-in-chief of the People's Army.
  • 1945Chairman of the State Planning Commission.
  • 1952–1974Chairman of the Council of Ministers (head of government).
  • 1958–1984Regained party leadership as first secretary; general secretary title from 1981.
  • 1974–1984Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (head of state) and commander-in-chief.
  • 1979Awarded the rank of Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic.