When the Chinese Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911, their former subjects in Mongolia quickly declared independence. The newborn Republic of China, however, did not like this and Chinese forces eventually managed to reconquer the country while the other regional powerhouse, Russia, was distracted with it own revolution. While th Bolsheviks were getting their house in order, however, a renegade anti-Communist army from Russia soon seized control of Mongolia. Only for the country to be taken by the Russian Communists in 1921 once they finally got their act together.
This photograph was taken a mere two years after Mongolian independence, and six years before the Chinese and Russian invasions. It was during the brief shining moment when Mongolia was independent. It would not be its own country again for sixty-nine years.
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