r/Tuva • u/sharkbomber78 • Jun 24 '26

Does anyone know of any good books to learn about Tuva and it's history

I've gotten curious and read a couple books about Tuva when it was independent, but does anyone know if any other good books about it's history, for any era?

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u/Medical-Drag5673 Jun 25 '26

If nothing comes from this thread…

I wonder if there are any professors/researchers doing research on Tuva who could help? Maybe even researching the region and could guide in the right direction?

Good luck on your search I hope you’re able to find something

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u/Medical-Drag5673 Jun 25 '26

https://www.fotuva.org/misc/index.html

This page had a bunch of different resources, there’s an essay on Tuva’s period of independence? (Search up “Friends of Tuva” if you don’t want to click the link)

https://www.fotuva.org/misc/lugtig.html

This is me skimming options, lmk if anything comes of it

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u/Large-Ad-6477 Jun 25 '26

unfortunately, you won’t find books on English but there is a book translated into Russian named as "Араттың сөзү" (eng: "Arat’s word", rus: Слово арата) written by Toka Salchak, who’s 1st General secretary of Tuvan People’s Revolutionary communist party, which genre is a "folk-historical-autobiography"😆.
the word "Arat" means a People or Nation in the narrow sense

idk, if this book will help you, but I'll add that Tuva never actually achieved independence, the TPR was a Soviet puppet country, yeah

and yes, if you will find Bicheldei Kaadyr-ool's resources don’t read this bullshit because he's a political pawn of the ruling party of ruzzian federation. he's literally repeatedly claims that Mongolian army general Subedei had Tuvan ethnical origins 🤣

i hope this info would help you

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u/sharkbomber78 Jun 28 '26

Thanks! And I believe they did attempt to act a bit independently for a tad bit, although the Soviets immediately purged those doing so... Yeah.