Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan. Edited by Stephen Kotkin and Bruce A. Elleman. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xx, 313 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper)

Part 1 Sino-Russian Competition Over Outer Mongolia: China's "New Administration" in Mongolia, Lan Meihua Russian Merchants in Mongolia - the 1910 Moscow Trade Expedition, Elizabeth Endicott Russian Diplomats and Mongol Independence, 1911-1915, Nakami Tatsuo The Buriat Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev, Yeshen-Khorlo Dugarova-Montgomery and Robert Montgomery. Part 2 International Diplomacy Concerning Outer Mongolia: Aspects of Soviet-Mongolian Relations, 1929-1939, Elena Boikova The Final Consolidation of the USSR's Sphere of Interest in Outer Mongolia, Bruce A. Elleman Sino-Soviet Diplomacy and the Second Partition of Mongolia, 1945-1946, Christopher P. Atwood Mongolia and Japan in 1945-1995 - a Half Century Reconsidered, Ts. Batbayar. Part 3 Mongolia Today: A Survey of the Mongols in Present-Day China - Perspectives on Demography and Culture Change, A. Hurelbaatar Mobility, Technology and Decollectivization of Pastoralism in Mongolia, David Sneath The 800th Anniversary of Chingis Khan - the Revival and Suppression of Mongolian National Consciousness, J. Boldbaatar Nationalism, Elites and Mongolia's Rapid Transformation, Tom Ginsburg Epilogue - Mongolia's Foreign Policy Revisited - Relations with Russia and the PRC into the 1990s, G. Tunurchulunn.