1937–1958
The focus is the rupture of families, institutions and territories through repression, destruction of religious infrastructure, partition, wartime mobilisation and post-war reconstruction.
Every statement shows its type, evidence status and provenance. How we treat sources.
Repression and the redrawing of the map arrived together, and the sources separate them more carefully than public memory does.
The 1937 territorial break-up of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR coincided with the Great Terror
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".”
How we treat sources4 catalog entriesPeriod tags: Political repression
Official pages of the Government of Buryatia containing links to the Republican Book of Remembrance of the victims of political repression and data on more than 20,000 repressed residents in the 1930s.
A section of the State Museum of the History of the GULAG projects, aggregating books of memory and databases of victims of Soviet repressions—an entry point for identifying individuals, reconstructing families, and mapping the geography of repression; archival links and rehabilitation status should be kept separate from accusations.
An open chapter on Buryat memory in Mongolia, including socialist-era repression and the suppression of identity — a valuable source on the diaspora and the repressions of the 1930s.
An article including an analysis of anti-Buryat campaigns and accusations of «Japanese espionage» in Mongolia during the 1930s — useful for the topic of repressions and suspicions against Buryats on the Mongolian side.