Soviet intervention in Mongolia

Soviet intervention of Mongolia
Part of the Russian Civil War and Mongolian Revolution of 1921

Outer Mongolia in 1921, shown as part of the Republic of China
Date1 May – 31 August 1921
Location
Result

Red Army victory

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]

  1. ^ Докумэнты внэшнэй политики СССР [Foreign political events involving the Soviet Union], (Moscow, 1957), v. 3, no. 192, pp. 55–56.