Mongolia and COMECON: Experience of Successful Cooperation

Abstract

The article provides an analytical review and assessment of the collection of documents “Mongolia in the COMECON: On the Path of Eurasian Economic Integration. 1961–1991.” (M., 2023). The collection includes 267 original archival documents reflecting the main directions of economic cooperation between Mongolia and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance over 30 years. Previously unpublished materials (some of which have been declassified specifically for this publication) from the collections of leading Russian and Mongolian archives clearly demonstrate the scale, mechanisms and forms of interaction between Mongolia and the central apparatus of the COMECON and individual member countries of the organization. The positive experience of international cooperation within the framework of an intergovernmental economic organization that united the countries of the socialist community, accumulated on the pages of the collection under review, acquires particular value in the context of the regionalization of the modern world economy.