HE RECENT discussion over the admission of Outer Mongolia to the United Nations has evoked considerable new interest in the political evolution of that country from a semi-independent part of China into a Soviet satellite. Outer Mongolia, now called the Mongolian People's Republic, was the first of the Soviet satellite states to be classed as a democracy. The Soviet Army entered the country in 1921 and laid the military basis for the people's revolution which was engineered on Soviet soil. The history of the Mongolian People's Republic since that time has covered the longest span of years revealing how a country has been sovietized. The state is described by the Great Soviet Encyclopedia in the following manner: