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traditional Mongolian beliefs with those of strong Russian nationalism, insisting that the Bolsheviks must be stamped out, due to their Jewish nature, and that the world was falling into "mad revolution". He created grand battle strategies of a new push westward, to crush the Bolshevik movement, and tried to centre White command around himself, trying to get the disparate commanders who were attempting defence against the Bolsheviks to unite and move east. These plans, however, failed, and the White movement began losing more and more ground to the Bolsheviks.
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was planned for further expansion. However, the Russian Empire could not act on the ambition due to internal struggles, so they recognised the autonomy of the region, which allowed Russia to claim that Mongolia was under her protection. The ongoing struggle of Mongolian nationalists against the Chinese continued through the
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The new government under the Bogd Khan tried to seek international recognition, particularly from the Russian government. The Russian tsar however, rejected the Mongolian plea for recognition, due to a common Russian Imperial ambition at the time to take over the central Asian states, and Mongolia
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as a revolutionary group fighting against the Chinese. As the Soviets began the hard push eastward against the White Russians, White high command demanded that the Chinese government do something about their struggle. After Chinese refusal of the plans, The Russian Asiatic cavalry under General
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Ungern wanted to continue the war with the Reds, but most of his White Guards troops wanted to go to Manchuria. An insurrection occurred in the Asian division, as a result of which Rezukhin was killed on August 18, and Ungern was captured on August 20 by the Red partisans. Most of the division
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Sternberg began an immediate concentration of power around himself. Though de jure power was held by Bogd Khan, Sternberg acted as the true head of state and began insisting that he was the saviour of the lands of Mongolia and that he would bring the Mongols to justice. Sternberg began fusing
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Although they had captured Urga, the Red forces failed to defeat the main forces of the Asiatic Division (Ungern's and Rezukhin's brigades), which had regrouped in the area of Akhai-gun-hure on the
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troops, and was forced to retreated to Mongolia. Combined Bolshevik and Red Mongol forces entered Mongolia and captured Urga on 6 July 1921, after a few skirmishes with Ungern's troops.
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As a result of the operation, Baron Ungern was captured and executed on 15 September 1921, the white Russian and Mongolian feudal troops were defeated, and the power of the
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began playing out. Over the course of the three-month invasion, Sternberg pushed the Chinese out and declared Bogd Khan monarch of a once again independent Mongolia.
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claimed inheritance of all territories held by the Qing dynasty and considered Outer Mongolia a part of its territory. This claim was made in the
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invaded in October 1920, pushing out undersupplied Beiyang troops in February 1921, who had mostly headed south, as the first stages of the
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adopted in 1912 specifically established frontier regions of the new republic, including Outer Mongolia, as integral parts of the state.
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was eliminated. A Provisional People's Government under the control of the Bolsheviks was established, which would become the
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began. During most of the war, Russian colonies in central Asia and along the Mongolian frontier fell under control of the
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Tserendorj, head of the Mongolian delegation in Moscow, signing treaty between Mongolia and the Russian Soviet Government.
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to assert Chinese control over the region, under the pretext of protection from spillover from the Russian Civil War.
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Provisional Mongolian People's Government under control of the Bolsheviks
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In May 1921, the Asian Horse Division attacked border troops of the Red
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troops fought in 1921 at the request of the communist government of the
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against the anti-communist government of White Russian general
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Outer Mongolia in 1921, shown as part of the Republic of China
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Esherick, Joseph; Kayali, Hasan; Van Young, Eric (2006).
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Imperial Edict of the Abdication of the Qing Emperor
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Index

Russian Civil War
Mongolian Revolution of 1921

Outer Mongolia
Red Army
Provisional Mongolian People's Government under control of the Bolsheviks
Russian SFSR
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Mongolia
Mikhail Matiyasevich
Konstantin Neumann
Ivan Smirnov
Damdin Sükhbaatar
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Baron Ungern
POW
Boris Rezukhin

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Eastern Front
of the Russian Civil War

1st Yakut
Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion
Barnaul
Siberian intervention
1st Kazan
2nd Kazan
Simbirsk
Syzran and Samara

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