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Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border, ed. Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey (Open Book Publishers, 2012); Library of Congress, Meeting of Frontiers digital collection. Page locators not yet attached.

In the catalog: "Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border" (eds. Billé, Delaplace, Humphrey, Open Book Publishers, 2012) · Library of Congress — Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia and the Russian Far East

“Cross-border nomadic mobility and religious and kin ties persisted after Nerchinsk/Kyakhta, despite the political division of jurisdictions.”

Ivan Sablin, Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924 (Routledge, 2016); Robert A. Rupen, "The Buriat Intelligentsia", The Far Eastern Quarterly (1956). Page locators not yet attached.

In the catalog: Ivan Sablin — "Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924" (Routledge, 2016) · Robert A. Rupen — "The Buriat Intelligentsia"

“At least three competing projects in 1917–1919 (secular autonomy, Buddhist theocracy, pan-Mongol federation), plus a separate Cossack dimension; the resulting Buryat-Mongol ASSR was the outcome of a later merger, not a predetermined path.”

Editorial synthesis drawing on Melissa Chakars, The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (CEU Press, 2014) and Kathryn E. Graber, Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia (Cornell University Press, 2020). Internal review (16 Jul 2026) found one direct scholarly confirmation; page locators not yet attached.

In the catalog: Melissa Chakars — "The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia" (CEU Press, 2014) · Kathryn E. Graber — "Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" (Cornell University Press, 2020)

“Collectivisation (from 1929), the Great Terror (1936–38) and the 1937 territorial break-up are analytically distinct, though connected, processes; one independent monograph (Chakars, 2014) confirms the break-up directly — hence "plausible", not "confirmed".”