Notes on Transliteration and Translation Acknowledgements Introduction Modernization and Soviet Success Institutions and the Culture of Progress Buryat Exceptionalism and Advancement Outline of Chapters Chapter 1 The Buryats of Siberia: From Imperial Russia to the Soviet State The Mongols of Siberia and Russian Expansion Buddhism in Buryatia The Buryats and the Imperial Government Buryat Intellectual and Political Activity The Civil War and the Competition over Siberia Autonomy and Korenizatsiia Conclusion Chapter 2 Stalinism in Buryatia Collectivization and the End of Nomadism Terrorizing and Purging the Buryat Elite Territorial Changes to Divide the Buryats Laying the Foundations for a New Culture Industrial Immigrants Conclusion Chapter 3 The New Buryats The Postwar Buryat Migration Buryat Professionals Buryat Women Political Leadership Conclusion Chapter 4 Education for Change Building Soviet Education in Eastern Siberia Buryat National Schools Teaching Progress, Patriotism, and the Friendship of Nations Teachers and Parents Education and High Culture for Young and Old Alike Conclusion Chapter 5 Buryat Literature for a New Society Producing High Culture Through Literature Geser: The Story of a National Epic Getting It Right: Censorship and Acceptable Narratives The Decline of Buryat Language Publishing and Literature Conclusion Chapter 6 A Means to Modernity: Newspapers, Radio, and Television The Local Press in Buryat and Russian The Development of Broadcast Media Radio and Television Programming Conclusion Chapter 7 Reform, But What Kind? Glasnost’ and the Buryat National Movement: 1986–89 The Competition Heats Up: 1990 The Buryats and the End of the USSR: 1991 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography