Peljidiin Genden

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Peljidiin Genden (Mongolian: Пэлжидийн Гэндэн, usually only Genden; 1892 - November 26, 1937) was the second President and the ninth Prime Minister of Mongolia.

His tenure as president (chairman of the State Small Khural) lasted from November 29, 1924 to November 15, 1927. He was appointed as Prime Minister (chairman of the Assembly of People's Commissaries) on July 2, 1932, after the previous office holder had been murdered.

He was a moderate communist, which led him into conflict with the Soviet Union. Among other things, he tried to prevent the elimination of the buddhist monks in Mongolia, and protested against the installation of soviet troups in Mongolia. During a meeting with Joseph Stalin in 1935, Genden described the Soviet Union's actions in Mongolia as "red imperialism".

Stalin and Khorloogiin Choibalsan organised a Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party plenary session in Ulan Bator, which removed him from power on March 2, 1936. He was fisrt placed under house arrest, then deported to the Krim, until being executed by a firing squad in Moscow on November 26, 1937 (accused of being a Japanese spy).

Genden was declared a non-person, and mentioning his name was prohibited until his rehabilitation in 1990.

His daughter Tserendulam opened the "Memorial Museum for Victims of Political Persecution" in his house in 1992. It offers information on the victims of the political prosecutions, which affected up to 14% of the population according to some estimations.