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Saturday, 05 November 2005 |
 Modern Mongolia - Cover  : From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists
by Morris Rossabi
University of California Press, 428 pages, $24.95
Reviewed by William Bikales
Reader beware, this book is more of a diatribe than a work of
scholarship, and the picture it presents of Mongolia’s development over
the last 15 years is wildly off the mark.
Morris Rossabi, an American medievalist best known for a biography of
Khublai Khan, argues that the foreign donors who came to Mongolia’s aid
following the 1991 termination of Soviet support forced the country to
follow “pure market” policies of shock therapy, minimal government and
privatization. The disastrous results, supposedly, were poverty,
corruption, environmental degradation, cultural decline and economic
dependence on China.
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