{"product_id":"1986-mongolian-people-s-revolutionary-party-19th-congress-delegate-badge-brass-variation-original-issue","title":"1986 Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party 19th Congress Delegate Badge – Brass Variation, Original Issue","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Item – Only One Available. An original delegate badge of the XIX Congress of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, held in Ulaanbaatar from 28–31 May 1986 with 841 delegates in attendance. Historically, the XIX occupies an exceptional position in the sequence of MPRP congresses: it was the final regular numbered party congress convened while Mongolia remained a constitutionally one-party socialist state, only four years before the political system that had governed the Mongolian People’s Republic for decades was dismantled during the democratic revolution of 1990. Held under General Secretary Jambyn Batmunkh, the congress approved the principal directions for Mongolia’s economic and social development for 1986–1990, while its leadership was already beginning to respond to the reform atmosphere spreading through the Soviet bloc. The Central Committee emerging from the congress underwent substantial personnel renewal, making the XIX an important marker between the established Tsedenbal-era system and the political transformation that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe badge itself is a particularly effective late-socialist design, formed as a flowing red-enamel flag with a raised five-pointed star and the central inscription “MPRP XIX Congress.” The sculpted folds beneath the translucent red enamel give the flag convincing depth, while the star, lettering, border and lower inscription provide the sharp gold-and-red contrast characteristic of senior party insignia of the period. The reverse is plain brass with its original horizontal safety-pin attachment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the badge of the last regular MPRP congress of Mongolia’s one-party era, the XIX carries a significance that extends beyond its attractive design. The party did convene an Extraordinary Congress in April 1990, but that meeting belonged to an entirely different political moment, the old constitutional monopoly had ended and the party was redefining itself within Mongolia’s transition toward competitive politics. The 1986 badge therefore closes the uninterrupted sequence of regular congress insignia from socialist Mongolia and makes an especially meaningful endpoint for a chronological MPRP collection. For collectors of Mongolian political history, communist-party delegate insignia, or late Cold War material, it is one of the most historically consequential congress badges of the series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mongolian People's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52876280037688,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/1256\/7096\/files\/IMG_1277.jpg?v=1788094883","url":"https:\/\/khanmilitaria.com\/products\/1986-mongolian-people-s-revolutionary-party-19th-congress-delegate-badge-brass-variation-original-issue","provider":"KhanMilitaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}