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Rumors, Gossip, and Fortune-telling: the Lamas' Information War Against the Bolsheviks
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas presents a talk.
In the 1920s the Bolshevik Government of the Buriat-Mongol Republic alienated the Buddhist Church. Being stripped of the privileges granted them by the Tsars, the Lamas sided the anti-Soviet insurgency movement and launched large-scale information war against the Soviet State.
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