Arctic Mirrors : : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North / / Yuri Slezkine.

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Sources and Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION. The Small Peoples of the North
  • PART I. SUBJECTS OF THE TSAR
  • CHAPTER 1. The Unbaptized
  • CHAPTER 2 . The Unenlightened
  • CHAPTER 3 . The Uncorrupted
  • PART II. SUBJECTS OF CONCERN
  • CHAPTER 4. The Oppressed
  • CHAPTER 5. The Liberated
  • PART III. CONQUERORS OF BACKWARDNESS
  • CHAPTER 6. The Conscious Collectivists
  • CHAPTER 7. The Cultural Revolutionaries
  • CHAPTER 8. The Uncertain Proletarians
  • PART IV. LAST AMONG EQUALS
  • CHAPTER 9 . The Socialist Nationalities
  • CHAPTER 10. The Endangered Species
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index