Political transformation of Mongolia during socialist period: from tradition to modern

The paper deals with political transformation of Mongolia during the socialist period that dramatically changed the kind and the content of the political process in the country. The political transformation was in the form of socialist modernization based on principled denial of the traditional society and attempts to build a modern (modernist) society. In the result of the modernization, there appeared fundamentally new elements of the political process in the country - the idea of people’s sovereignty and elected government, equal civil rights, secular state, and so on. Despite the known criticism of the socialist modernization, many of its results continue to influence the current political process in Mongolia.