1885–1924
✕ Executed · rehabilitated 1962
Founding member and first party chairman, shot as a 'bourgeois'
Arrested at the third party congress in August 1924, he was tried, sentenced and shot within twenty-four hours while the congress went on meeting.
A founding member of the Mongolian People's Party in 1919, he led the party's first Central Committee after the 1921 revolution and served as finance minister in the early people's government. He directed the purge and execution of Prime Minister Bodoo in 1922, an early sign of the revolution's inner violence. Wanting less Soviet control and limited capitalism, he clashed with Comintern leftists and was denounced as a 'bourgeois' at the third party congress in August 1924, then arrested and shot within a day. The purge sealed the party's turn toward the non-capitalist path and the republic.
Also known as: Soliin Danzan · Solin Danzan
Activities and affiliations
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1919–1924
Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary PartyMain
Political and party leadership- Chairman of the Central Committee1921–1924
Career Timeline
- 1919Founded the East Khüree group and helped found the Mongolian People's Party
- 1920Member of the party delegation to Moscow that met Lenin
- 1921Elected Central Committee chairman at the 1st congress in Kiakhta (March–September)
- 1921–1922Minister of finance
- 1922Directed the purge and execution of Prime Minister Bodoo
- 1923Member of the Central Committee Presidium
- 1924Denounced as a 'bourgeois' and executed at the 3rd party congress
Related historical events
The 1924 congress and execution
At the Mongolian People’s Party’s Third Congress in August 1924, Danzan defended an independent path of national development. The Mongolian historical dictionary describes him as a defender of Mongolia’s independence and national development course, and records that internal-security officials arrested him during the congress on the night of August 26–27. On August 28, a joint session of the congress and government formed a special commission to investigate the case and carry out a sentence within 24 hours. Danzan was executed on charges of “counterrevolution” without a judicial verdict. The episode was not merely the end of an intra-party dispute: debate over national independence and development was suppressed through coercion and without judicial process. In 1992, Mongolia’s Supreme Court posthumously acquitted Danzan and Bavaasan, who had been arrested with him.