The Project «Yellow Russia» and the National Liberation Movement in Outer Mongolia and Hulun Buir in the First Quarter of the XX Century (Based on Materials by Chinese Researchers)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the reasons and prerequisites of the national liberation movement of the Mongols in Outer Mongolia and Hulun-Buir in the first quarter of the XX century. The work is based on the publications of individual Chinese historians, using a number of data from Russian researchers. The author concluded that Chinese scholars viewed the phenomenon of the national liberation movement in Outer Mongolia and Hulun-Buir through the prism of Russia’s implementation of a special geopolitical project known as Zheltorossiya (Yellow Russia).