«People in Harbin Reasonably Consider the Urginsky District as a District of Bolsheviks…»: Baikal Region and Mongolia 1917–1919 in the Materials of the Mongolian Expedition for Purchasing Livestock

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of some details of the history of Baikal region and Mongolia in 1917–1919. The Mongolian history of this period is closely related to the revolutions and the civil war in Russia. The authors studied the materials of the fund 71 of the State Archives of the Irkutsk Region, which contain reports from Russian officials involved in the purchase of cattle in Mongolia.