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In Memoirs of a Mongolian Ambassador, U. B. Jargalsaikhan traces his five-decade-long career working in Mongolian’s foreign service during the checkered twentieth century. He reflects about how, during his student years in the 1930s, he witnessed Soviet efforts to instill a communist ideology into the life of the Mongolian people and to repress those, including the national elites and clergy, who dared to voice their doubts about them.
He writes in vivid detail about his first post, serving at the Mongolian Embassy in Moscow in 1941, and how he and his staff had to work in spite of German bombing of the city. He later served as Mongolia’s first Ambassador to China and discussed the establishment of bilateral relations with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Long an advocate for Mongolia’s membership in the United Nations, Jargalsaikhan was in the room in 1961, when this status was finally achieved. He served as Mongolia’s first Permanent Representative to the UN and later traveled throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia promoting bilateral relations.
This beautifully written and accessible memoir provides us with a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Mongolian government in a tumultuous and at times exciting period in its history.
In Memoirs of a Mongolian Ambassador, U. B. Jargalsaikhan traces his five-decade-long career working in Mongolian’s foreign service during the checkered twentieth century. He reflects about how, during his student years in the 1930s, he witnessed Soviet efforts to instill a communist ideology into the life of the Mongolian people and to repress those, including the national elites and clergy, who dared to voice their doubts about them.
He writes in vivid detail about his first post, serving at the Mongolian Embassy in Moscow in 1941, and how he and his staff had to work in spite of German bombing of the city. He later served as Mongolia’s first Ambassador to China and discussed the establishment of bilateral relations with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Long an advocate for Mongolia’s membership in the United Nations, Jargalsaikhan was in the room in 1961, when this status was finally achieved. He served as Mongolia’s first Permanent Representative to the UN and later traveled throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia promoting bilateral relations.
This beautifully written and accessible memoir provides us with a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Mongolian government in a tumultuous and at times exciting period in its history.