Buryat Intellectuals in Empire and Revolution (Hardcover)

Introduction.??I. Scholars, Explorers, and Literati??1. Orientologists, Countrymen, and Lamas: The Many Lives of Gombozhab Tsybikov’s Tibetan Photographs??2. Soldier, Explorer, Merchant, Spy?: The Lifeworlds of Tsogto Badmazhapov and the Challenges of Knowledge Production in the Imperial Situation? 3. Buryat Identity, Buddhism, and Cultural Pan-Mongolism in Agvan Dorzhiev’s New-Script Buryat Writings??4. Skillful Means, Romantic Visions: Petr Dambinov??II. Political Activists??5. Buryat Deputies and the Imperial Transformations of 1905-1918: Bato-Dalai Ochirov, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Bayarto Vampilon??6. Mikhail Bogdanov among the Khakas of Southern Siberia??7. Buryat Intellectuals and a ‘New Mongolia’: Representatives of the Mongolian Government in Germany from 1925-1930??8. Elbek-Dorji Rinchino and the Buryat-Mongolian National Revolutionary Project??9. Towers of the World Revolution’ Versus the ‘House of Cards’ of National Revival: Trajectories of the Indigenous Cosmopolitanism of Maria Sakhyanova