{"title":"A Closer Union","authors":"Simon Wickhamsmith","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d809p.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d809p.13","url":null,"abstract":"The Great Repression left Mongolian letters without many of its leading\u0000 voices, but this also enabled the Party to revive literature in a way more\u0000 favorable to its ideological trajectory. The first Congress of Mongolian\u0000 Writers, held in the spring of 1948, was the culmination of a decade’s\u0000 political development in which writers were encouraged to write about\u0000 the benefit of labor (D. Sengee’s ‘The Shock Workers’ [Udarnik, 1941] and\u0000 Ts. Damdinsüren’s ‘How Soli Changed’ [Soli solison ni, 1945]) and so develop\u0000 a Mongolian Socialist Realism. Through a closer connection with Soviet\u0000 policy, helped by Mongolia’s moral and practical support of the Soviet\u0000 Union during the Great Patriotic War, the Writers’ Congress helped to\u0000 define the ideological basis for Mongolian literature for the next three\u0000 decades.","PeriodicalId":106248,"journal":{"name":"Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124690262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape Re-Envisioned","authors":"Simon Wickhamsmith","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15d809p.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15d809p.7","url":null,"abstract":"One of the more complex developments in the post-revolutionary period\u0000 was in the Mongolian people’s understanding of their traditional, intimate\u0000 relationship with the landscape. Mongolian nomadic life has always been\u0000 linked inextricably with the cycle of the seasons, with the weather, and\u0000 with the topographical features, which function as both waymarks and\u0000 as ancestral presence. Despite its impulse towards industrialization and\u0000 urbanization, Mongolian socialism acknowledged such links, and writers\u0000 drew on their own connection with their homeland (nutag) to enhance and\u0000 promote the new revolutionary society through a literature that celebrated\u0000 the interaction of humans, livestock and the steppe. A competition based\u0000 upon the theme of the revolutionary response to ‘homeland’ (nutag)\u0000 resulted in a greater interest in this dynamic, as shown in D. Natsagdorj’s\u0000 1933 poem ‘My Homeland’ (Minii Nutag).","PeriodicalId":106248,"journal":{"name":"Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121566893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging a Revolution","authors":"R. Willie","doi":"10.7765/9781784996765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781784996765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106248,"journal":{"name":"Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948)","volume":"52 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114347534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}