Sukhbaatar
Süke-bator (in Mongolian ДамдинСүхбаатар) also written Sükhe-Bător, Sükhbătar Damdiny or Sukhbaatar (February 2nd 1893 - February 22nd 1923) called the Mongolian Lénine , is regarded as the heart of the Mongolian revolution.
Resulting from a disinherited medium, it enters in 1918, at the time of autonomous Mongolia, like typographer with the printing works of Ourga (old name of Ulan-Bator, capital of the country), and there, it is touched by the Russian novel ideas. In 1919, it organizes a circle of revolutionists with men of varied origin (spangled, civils servant, noble, etc), that at the instigation of the Komintern, it makes amalgamate in 1920, under the name of Mongolian revolutionary Popular party, with the group organized by Choybalsan, future “Mongolian Stalin”. This same year with Choybalsan and five other revolutionists, it goes in the USSR to ask the assistance of the Soviet capacity against the Chinese invaders: this voyage, magnifié, became one of leitmotive of the art and the literature of contemporary Mongolia. In the beginning of 1921, it takes part in the creation of the first detachments of the popular Armée Mongolian and takes a decisive share with the events which mark the beginning of the Mongolian revolution: the ousting of the Chinese of Maimaicheng, currently Altan-bulag, close to Kiakhta, at the mongolo-Siberian border, and the first congress of the Mongolian revolutionary Popular party. Appointed Minister for the war of the provisional popular government, it releases the north of Mongolia and the Ourga capital, of the forces of Ungern-Sternberg, the “bloody Baron”, and of the Chinese. In November 1921, it is received by Lénine with Moscow. But he dies prematurely, poisoned by the counter-revolutionaries, has one says, before the installation of the socialist mode.
See too
- Mausoleum of Sukhbaatar
- Sükhbaatar , Mongolian film