Mongolia and the Cold War
19-20 March 2004, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The international workshop was hosted by the Institute of International Studies of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and Pax Mongolica, an organization closely linked with the Mongolian Cold War Study Group, the PHP's Mongolian associate. It was co-sponsored by the Parallel History Project together with the National Security Archive, the International Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), the George Washington University Cold War Group, and the LSE Cold War Studies Centre.
Organized in 2002 to facilitate collaboration of Mongolian scholars with the PHP and the Cold War International History Project, the Mongolian Cold War Study Group consists of historians, archivists, and political scientists associated with the National University of Mongolia, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, National Archives of Mongolia, and Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They research Mongolian archives, promote declassification of documents, organize conferences, and present results of their work in both local and international media.
Following presentations by Western scholars on declassification, potential cooperation, and joint publications, there will be papers presented by Mongolian and Western scholars on Mongolia's role in the Cold War as well as by former Mongolian policy-makers and officials using material from the Mongolian archives.
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Program
Meeting Hall, Chinggis Khaan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar
| Friday, 19 March 2004 | |
09:30 |
Welcome and introduction, by Sergey Radchenko, K. Demberel, Jim Hershberg, Malcolm Byrne, Vojtech Mastny, Christian Ostermann, Odd Arne Westad |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 |
Panel I: Mongolia and the East "Mongolian documents on Kim Il Sung" - K. Demberel |
| 12:45 | Lunch (until 13:45) |
| 14:00 - 15:45 |
Panel II: Mongolia and the West "Mongolia's Membership in the UN and the Recognition Crisis in the Kennedy Administration" |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Panel III: Mongolia Between China and the Soviet Union "Mao Zedong's Efforts to reclaim Mongolia" - N. Altantsetseg |
| Saturday, 20 March 2004 | |
| 09:30 - 11:30 |
Panel I: Mongolia and the Warsaw Pact "Polish Documents on Mongolia" - Malgorzata Gnoinska |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:45 - 13:30 |
Panel II: Mongolia's Party Politics "Tsedenbal and the Mongolian Sovereignty" - Ts. Gurbadam |
| 13:30 | Lunch (until 14:30) |
| 14:30 - 16:45 |
Panel II: International Cooperation on Cold War Research (Round Table Discussion) |
| 19:00 | Dinner, Irish House |
Related Links:
The Soviets' Best Friend in Asia: The Mongolian Dimension of the Sino-Soviet Split, by Sergey S. Radchenko
CWIHP Working Paper, no. 42 (November 2003)
"China and the Warsaw Pact under Mao and Khrushchev"
PHP Document Collection (October 2002)
China, the Warsaw Pact, and Sino-Soviet Relations under Khrushchev, by Vojtech Mastny
Khrushchev, Mao and the Unrealized Sino-Soviet Military Cooperation, by Shen Zhihua
Did the USSR Share Atomic Secrets with China?, by Evgeny A. Negin and Yuri N. Smirnov
