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Arctic Mirrors : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.