The resilience and continued survival of Mongolian democracy is a testament that democracy can endure in hard places.

Mongolia became a democracy in the early 1990s after six decades of one-party communist rule. Many Mongolians welcomed the end of repression and resulting freedoms but have since soured on the ...

The latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans.