Soviet intervention of Mongolia | |||||||
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Part of the Russian Civil War and Mongolian Revolution of 1921 | |||||||
Outer Mongolia in 1921, shown as part of the Republic of China | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russian SFSR Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party | Mongolia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mikhail Matiyasevich Konstantin Neumann Ivan Smirnov Damdin Sükhbaatar Khorloogiin Choibalsan |
Baron Ungern (POW) Boris Rezukhin † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
7,600 bayonets 2,500 sabers | 4,000 sabers |
The Soviet intervention in Mongolia was when Soviet troops fought in 1921 at the request of the communist government of the Mongolian People's Party against the anti-communist government of White Russian general Baron Ungern and occupied the entirety of Mongolia. Later there was the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic, and the formation of modern ideas of Mongolian nationalism, which fully pulled Mongolia out of the influence of the Beiyang government of China and under the influence of Soviet Russia.[1]