MPRP leader who joined the Danzan purge and was later expelled as a rightist
At the third party congress in 1924 he joined Rinchingiin Elbegdorj in denouncing Soliin Danzan as a representative of bourgeois interests, leading to his arrest and execution; afterwards he led the party's right wing in policies modelled on the New Economic Policy.
A Mongolian revolutionary and journalist, he was elected to the Mongolian People's Party Central Committee at its first congress in 1921, served as its secretary and deputy chairman, and headed its presidium as chairman from 1923 to 1928. At the third party congress in 1924 he joined the leftist Rinchingiin Elbegdorj in denouncing the moderate Soliin Danzan as a representative of bourgeois interests, leading to Danzan's arrest and execution; he then led the party's right wing in policies modelled on Lenin's New Economic Policy. Expelled as a 'rightist' at the seventh party congress in 1928, he was posted to Moscow as a trade representative at the Mongolian embassy and died there in June 1934. He was also the first editor of the newspapers Ardyn Erkh and Ünen and of the journal Mongol Ardyn Nam, and a translator of Engels.
Career Timeline
- 1918–1920Telegraph and railway communications worker in Niislel Khüree and Khiagt
- 1920Joined the patriots' movement from autumn
- 1921Elected to the Central Committee at the 1st congress and served in the provisional government's Foreign Relations Department; acting Central Committee chairman in March
- 1921–1923Central Committee secretary; vice chairman January–March 1922, chairman 15 March 1922 – 12 January 1923
- 1921Plenipotentiary representative to the western frontier, fighting the Whites and helping found the Western Frontier Government and People's Party committee
- 1924–1928Central Committee presidium member and chairman (31 August 1924 – 27 October 1928)
- 1928–1929Trade representative at the Mongolian embassy in the USSR; studied at the Moscow Higher School of National Economy 1929–1932