"The Outer Mongolian Revolution" Topic

Tibetan-Buddhist Holy Warriors & the Asiatic Cavalry Division, 1919-1922

"After the Russian Revolution but before the Bolsheviks had even secured total victory during the Russian Civil War (1917-1923), Soviet leadership under Lenin, Trotsky, and later Joseph Stalin (b.1878-1953), looked to the Far East to establish a sphere of influence as a buffer to Imperial Japan's growth in the East and Pacific Ocean following the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

The Japanese Empire spent most of the 1920's and 1930's refining and building their military capabilities for their planned economic and cultural domination of Asia which would begin in China and Soviets sensed that the Far East would become a vital diplomatic and military frontier later on.

Hence the early heightening of Soviet political and military presence in Mongolia at the tail end of the Russian Civil War in 1920-1921. After crushing most if not all of the White resistance on the Russian mainland, Red Army and Party leadership eyed the Far East rather greedily-looking especially to the crumbling territories of the Empire of China now ruled by a varying number of warlords spread throughout the vast territories of the former Qing Dynasty. Red Army occupation of Mongolia came as a result of one most bizarre and violent episodes in the bloody and widespread aftermath related to the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921…"

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