In May 1923, the republic was created with the name
Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; its predecessor was the . When the republic was formed, "Buryat-Mongolian" language was declared the official language. In 1958, the name "Mongol" was removed from the name of the republic, as a result of
Mao Zedong's attempt to extend
China’s influence over Mongol peoples. In May 1929, the
Party Central Committee decreed that Buryat agriculture would undergo "socialist reorganization" - Buryat resistance to the collectivist policy was fierce, with Buryat herders slaughtering their livestock rather than allowing them to be confiscated. Nevertheless, traditional livelihoods were forcibly altered under Soviet policy. Nomads were forcibly resettled on collectivist farms of cattle and sheep, trappers were made to rear
sable in captivity, and Buryat hunters were forced to live in Party-approved "hunting stations". In the 1930s, Buryat-Mongolia was one of the sites of Soviet studies aimed to disprove
Nazi race theories. Amongst other things, Soviet physicians studied the "endurance and fatigue levels" of Russian, Buryat-Mongol, and Russian-Buryat-Mongol workers to prove that all three groups were equally able. During
World War II, the head of the ASSR was
Gunsyn Tsydenova. == Dissolution ==