Leftward Together
This chapter discusses the social innovations and industrialization that began to appear in Mongolia towards the end of the 1920s following Stalin’s accession to power and the implementation of increasingly leftist policies in the Soviet Union. It considers the establishment of the first Revolutionary Writers’ Group (Huvisgalt uran zohiolch naryn bülgem) and the publication in 1929 of the first anthology of Mongolian literature (Uran ügsiin chuulgan) in which revolutionary ideas were developed and promoted. The growing pressure on writers to conform to the Mongolian Party’s relationship to the policies advanced in the Soviet Union meant that what was published – and hence what was read – began to cleave more assiduously to this ideology. By presenting new or would-be writers with advice on how to create socialist literature, the introductory essays to the Anthology by S. Buyannemeh and Chimid Dungarin indicate how the Party focused on developing and using Mongolia’s literary talent to promote its ideology.