Arctic Mirrors : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (475 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
ARCTIC MIRRORS; Contents; Preface; Sources and Abbreviations; Introduction: The Small Peoples of the North; PART I. SUBJECTS OF THE TSAR; CHAPTER 1. The Unbaptized; The Sovereign's Profit; The Sovereign's Foreigners; CHAPTER 2. The Unenlightened ; The State and the Savages; The State and the Tribute Payers; CHAPTER 3. The Uncorrupted ; High Culture and the Children of Nature; The Empire and the Aliens; PART II. SUBJECTS OF CONCERN; CHAPTER 4. The Oppressed; Aliens as Neighbors and Tribute Payers as Debtors; The Russian Indians and the Populist Intellectuals; CHAPTER 5. The Liberated. The Commissariat of Nationalities and the Tribes of the Northern BorderlandsThe Committee of the North: The Committee ; The Committee of the North: The North ; PART III. CONQUERORS OF BACKWARDNESS; CHAPTER 6. The Conscious Collectivists; Class Struggles in a Classless Society; Hunting and Gathering under Socialism; CHAPTER 7. The Cultural Revolutionaries; The War against Backwardness; The War against Ethnography; CHAPTER 8. The Uncertain Proletarians; The Native Northerners as Industrial Laborers; The North without the Native Northerners; The Long Journey of the Small Peoples. PART IV. LAST AMONG EQUALSCHAPTER 9. The Socialist Nationalities ; Socialist Realism in the Social Sciences; Fiction as History; CHAPTER 10. The Endangered Species; Planners' Problems and Scholars' Scruples; The Return of Dersu Uzala; Perestroika and the Numerically Small Peoples of the North; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.