Mongolia, 1964 — palace coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry, coded as a palace coup on 17 December 1964, corresponds to the purge of the so-called Lookhuuz-Nyambuu-Surmaajav anti-party group in the Mongolian People's Republic. At a Central Committee plenum in December 1964, three members who handled economic issues, Tsogt-Ochiryn Lookhuuz, Baldandorjiin Nyambuu and Bandiin Surmaajav, argued that living standards were declining and criticized the party's petit-bourgeois attitude. Party leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, the de facto ruler of Mongolia and a close ally of the Soviet Union, branded them an anti-party group, expelled them from the party, and sent them into internal exile.
This was one in a series of Tsedenbal purges of rivals and critics that had earlier removed Dashiin Damba in 1958 to 1959, Daramyn Tomor-Ochir in 1962 and Luvsantserengiin Tsend in 1963. Unlike the mass killings of the 1930s, Tsedenbal's method was bloodless repression through demotion, expulsion and banishment to remote provinces.
Researched Details
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
71212171964
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Tsedenbal remained in power and consolidated control; the anti-party group was expelled and internally exiled, not executed.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Journal of Cold War Studies
Inner Asia
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