LEONOF, G. A., & V. N. Rogoff.

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Menggu renmin gongheguo zou xiang wenhua jianshe zhi dao ("The Mongolian People's Republic on the Road to Cultural Development"). First edition, sole printing, of this rare and fascinating piece of East Asian propaganda, this copy excellently preserved; one of 1,000 copies printed. This homage to Mongolian socialism was sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party to make the case for the benefits socialism could bring to East Asia. This copy was previously owned by Albert Ravenholt, a prominent Western reporter in wartime China. Founded in 1941, Epoch Publishing Company was a propaganda front for the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai and specialized in publishing periodicals and works extolling socialist ideology. By the late 1940s, the civil war between Chinese communists and nationalists had become an ideological acid test of emerging Cold War rivalries. By 1948, the momentum lay firmly with Mao Zedong's communists and the People's Liberation Army. This bilingual account of developments in the Mongolian People's Republic since the 1921 revolution was jointly authored by a former TASS correspondent in China (Rogoff) and a scholar of Buddhism and Lamaism (Leonof), and was aimed at reassuring both Chinese and English readers that coming communist rule in China would translate into modernisation and positive development - a picture diametrically opposed to the claims of American and Chinese nationalist propaganda. The copiously-illustrated chapters survey recent progress in Mong

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