rightist policies mirroring Lenin’s New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union. Elbegdorj helped draft the country's 1924 Constitution (based largely on the Soviet constitution), but soon thereafter saw his influence wane with the appointment of Turar Ryskulov as the new chief Comintern adviser in Ulaanbaatar in 1924. During the Congress, when Elbegdorj was criticized for working for the Russians, he responded with the statement that "I have worked from the beginning of the existence of our People's Party. I went with the representatives of our Party to Moscow. I worked in the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern (Mongolian and Tibetan Section) at Irkutsk. I led Mongolia to the Comintern, which supplied the Mongolian People's Party with instructors and indispensable funds. Later the Comintern dispatched me to Kiakhta for work during the most critical moment of the existence of our Party and Government.... The Comintern has dispatched me here." During the Third Party Congress, Elbegdorj stated his opinions on the expansion of Mongolia, stating that "millions of our race, the 'Inner' Mongols, are groaning under the oppression of China" (referring to Inner Mongolia), and during the First Great Khural of November 1924, he stated that "We must be the cultural center for our races, we must attract to ourselves the Inner Mongols, Barga Mongols, etc..." Baradin told this same Khural: 'Be firm in your work of uniting all Mongolian races...'" In the same year, Elbegdorj noted that he speculated that upon the full conversion of Mongolia to Communism, Mongolia should annex Buryatia and then focus on conquering Tibet, creating a Buddhist Mongol-Tibetan state. Facing criticism from the Russians that such a state would be too powerful, Elbegdorj replied that nevertheless, "In our hands, the all-Mongol national idea could be a powerful and sharp revolutionary weapon. Under no circumstances are we going to surrender this weapon into the hands of Mongol feudal lords, Japanese militarists, and Russian bandits like Baron Ungern." Death By 1925 Elbegdorj was accused of being a bourgeois nationalist and a Pan-Mongolist whose pan-Mongolian sentiments, expressed at the Third Party Congress in 1924, were seen as contrary to communist policy. The power struggle between Ryskulov and Elbegdorj eventually resulted in both being recalled to Moscow in 1928. He then worked at NIANKP (Scientific-Investigative Association for National and Colonial Problems) and taught at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East training many of the young MPRP members