Editing Satellite state (section)

===Interwar period===
When the [[Mongolian Revolution of 1921]] broke out, Mongolian revolutionaries expelled the Russian [[White movement|White Guards]] (during the [[Russian Civil War]] of 1917–1923 following the [[October Revolution]] of 1917) from Mongolia, with the assistance of the Soviet [[Red Army]]. The revolution also officially ended Manchurian sovereignty over Mongolia, which had existed since 1691.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the U.S. and Mongolia |url=https://mn.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/ |website=U.S. Embassy in Mongolia}}</ref> Although the [[Theocracy|theocratic]] [[Bogd Khanate of Mongolia]] still nominally continued, with successive series of violent struggles, Soviet influence grew stronger. In 1924, after the [[Bogd Khan]] died of [[laryngeal cancer]]<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Кузьмин, С.Л. |last2=[Kuzmin, S.L.] |last3=Оюунчимэг, Ж. |last4=[Oyunchimeg, J.] |title=Буддизм и революция в Монголии |trans-title=Buddhism and the revolution in Mongolia |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/54133527/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC-%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B2-%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306164044/https://www.scribd.com/doc/54133527/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC-%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B2-%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B8 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |language=ru}}</ref> or, as some sources suggest, at the hands of Soviet spies,<ref>{{YouTube|XuB0b_dEZ5g|Догсомын Бодоо 1/2}} '''(Mongolian)'''</ref> the [[Mongolian People's Republic]] was proclaimed on November 26, 1924. A nominally independent and sovereign country, it has been described as being a satellite state of the Soviet Union in the years from 1924 [[Mongolian Revolution of 1990|until 1990]]. This is supported by the fact that the Mongolian PR collapsed less than two months after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].<ref name=Sik /><ref name=Japan>{{cite book|pages=13, 66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGQMKex16AsC&pg=PA13|title=Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia: 1895–1945|isbn=978-0-7007-1482-7|last1=Narangoa|first1=Li|last2=Cribb|first2=Robert B|year=2003| publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref>

During the Russian Civil War, Red Army troops occupied [[Tuva]] in January 1920, which had also been part of the [[Qing dynasty|Qing Empire]] of China and a [[protectorate]] of [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]]. The [[Tuvan People's Republic]] was proclaimed a nominally independent state in 1921, although it was tightly controlled by Moscow and is considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union until 1944, when the USSR annexed it into the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]].<ref name=Japan />

Another early Soviet satellite state in [[Asia]] was the short-lived [[Far Eastern Republic]] in Siberia.<ref name=Japan />