The Buryat revolt against the Soviet Union in 1929
1929 Buryat Revolt
Part of Collectivization in the Soviet Union
Date
1929
Location
Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Result
Soviet Victory
Buddhist monasteries closed[1]
Lamas exiled
Anti-Buryat purges in Mongolia[2]
Mongolian alphabet replaced with Romanised characters in 1931
10,000 killed in 1937-1938 purges
Belligerents
Soviet Union
Buryats
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Stalin Yakov Epstien
Unknown
Units involved
Red Army
Buryat Rebels and Farmers
Casualties and losses
Unknown
35,000 Buryats killed[3][2]
The 1929 Buryat Revolt was a poorly organized uprising within the Soviet Union, triggered by oppressive policies and discrimination against the Buryats, a Mongol ethnic group primarily adhering to Buddhism.
The revolt was initiated in response to Joseph Stalin's forced collectivization strategy, which sought to amalgamate individual landholdings into collective farms. However, the Soviet regime quickly and ruthanically quashed the revolt, resulting in approximately 10,000 deaths and prompting some Buryats to escape southward to Mongolia. The failed uprising highlights the profound ethnic tensions and resistance to Soviet collectivization, leaving a lasting impact on the Buryat community and Soviet ethnic policies.
[4]
^"A Brief History of Buryat -- Russian Relations". culturalsurvival.org. 26 March 2010.
^ abJames Minahan. Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations, Vol. 2: S–Z, p. 345
^"D.Sukhbaatar: Red Buryat". worldmongol.org. 2 February 2023.
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