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Historical Science in the Mongolian People's Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Sh. Bira
Affiliation:
Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Abstract

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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961

References

1 Rashid-ad-din, , Syornik. letopisei [Collection of Chronicles] (Moscow-Leningrad, 1932) Vol. 1, Bk. 2, p. 13.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., Vol. 1, Bk. 2, p. 73.

3 Ibid., Vol. 1, Bk. 1, p. 67.

4 Ibid., Vol. 1, Bk. 2, p. 16.

5 Barthold, V. V., Turkestan v espokhu mongol'skovo nashe, Part II (St. Petersburg, 1900) 45Google Scholar. (Page 44 of the English translation, Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion, ed. H. A. R. Gibb [London, 1928]).

6 Vladimirstov, B. Y., Obshchestvennyi stroi mongolov [The Social Structure of the Mongolian People] (Leningrad, 1934), p. 6Google Scholar. (Page 7 of the French translation, by Michel Carson, Le régime social des Mongols, Paris, 1948.)

7 Vladimirtsov, pp. 7–8. There is a large literature on The Secret History: Kafarov, P., Starinnoe mongol'-skoe skfizanie o Chingis-khane [Ancient Mongolian Tales about Ghenghis Khan], Trudy chlenov Pekinskoi dukhovnoi misii [Works of the Members of the Peking Ecclesiastical Mission], IV (St. Petersburg, 1866), 268Google Scholar. Kozin, C. A., Sokrovennoe skazanie. Mongol'skaya khronika 12.40 goda [Secret History. Mongolian Chronicle of 1240] (Moscow-Leningrad, 1941)Google Scholar. Haenisch, Erich, Monghol un Niuca Tobia'an (Yüan-ch‘ao pi-shi) [Die Geheime Geschichte der Mongolen, aus der chinesischen Transcription (Ausgabe Ye Teh-hui) in mongolischen Wortlaut wiederhergestellt] (Leipzig, 1937; 2nd, rev. ed., 1948)Google Scholar, Pelliot, P., Histoire, secrète des Mongols, restitution du texte mongol et traduction française des chapitres I à VI (Paris, 1949)Google Scholar. Damdinsuren, Ts., Mongol-un niguca tobčiyan [The Secret History] (Ulan Bator, 1947).Google Scholar

8 Juvaini, Ata-Malik's work has been translated from the Persian by Boyle, John Andrew, The History of the World-Conqueror (Manchester University Press, 1958) 2 vols.Google Scholar

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12 The Altan Tobči by Lubsan-Danzan was published in 1937 by the Committee of Sciences of the MPR, and reproduced as Altan Tobči. A Brief History of the Mongols by bsTanjin, bLo-bZan. Critical introduction by A. Mostaert; editor's foreword by Cleaves, F. W. (Harvard University Press, 1952).Google Scholar

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14 Shara Tuji has been translated and published in Russian by Shastina, N. P., Mongol'skaia letopis' XVII v Svodnyi Tekst, perevod, vvedenie i primechaniya (Moscow-Leningrad, 1957).Google Scholar

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16 Dorghuren, Ts., BHMA Ulsyn nulag dakh' chuluuney zdvsgiin Ueien sudlalyin baidal (Ulan Bator: Shinzhlekh Ukhaan Khureelengiin khevlel, 1957), p. 4Google Scholar. On research work in the MPR on the Stone Age, see Ser-Odzhav, N., BHMA Ulsad iavuulsan arkheologiin azhlyn tukhai (Shinzhlekh Ukhaan, tekhnik, No. 2, 1958).Google Scholar

17 This book was published in 1934. It is translated into Russian, Chinese, German, Czechoslovakian, and other languages. Choibalsan, Kh., tr., Kratkii otchet istorii mongol'skoi narodnoi revoliutsii, perev. s mong. (Moscow: Publishing House of Foreign Literature, 1952).Google Scholar

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21 This book was translated by Lattimore, Owen, Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia, with a translation from the Mongol of Sh. Natsagdorje's life of Sukhe-Bator by Owen Lattimore and Urgungge Onon (Issued under the auspices of the International Secretariat, I.P.R.; Leiden: E. A. Brill, 1955).Google Scholar

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23 This work was translated into Japanese by Prof. Abematsu and published in 1959 by The Institute of Foreign Languages in Osaka.

24 This work is in Mongol, Russian, and Chinese.