{"product_id":"arctic-mirrors-russia-and-the-small-peoples-of-the-north-9780801429767","title":"Arctic Mirrors  Russia and the Small Peoples of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngagingly written and with much ironic wit throughout, \u003ci\u003eArctic Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to read.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Historical Geography *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this great book, Slezkine has provided us with a comprehensive history of the encounter between the Russians and the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and northwestern Pacific.... \u003ci\u003eArctic Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e has already become required reading for anyone interested in the history or anthropology of Siberia, and it will soon establish itself as an invaluable contribution to the growing field of studies on the newly independent states.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlezkine concentrates on the changing face of the Soviet Union in the microcosm of the northern people: from 'savage Indians' to the slow evolution from icebound hunters and trappers to industrialized laborers.... An invaluable look at the people the totalitarian Soviets forgot.\u003c\/p\u003e * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book sheds light on the history of a neglected people and reveals Russian self-perceptions refracted through the prism of their attitudes toward the natives.... It is a beautifully written, fascinating book that greatly enhances our understanding of Russia as a multiethnic state.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enlightening book should be read by all interested in the (former) Soviet north, northern people in general, or the relation between nation states and the various 'small peoples' of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e * Ethnohistory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating and authoritative book covers the history of relations between Russian civilization and the hunter-gatherer peoples of northern Eurasia. Slezkine charts changing Russian policies toward these circumpolar cultures beginning with the fur trade... in the eleventh century, through the expansion of the Russian empire under the tsars, to the modernization policies of the Soviets. He argues that attention to this kind of history reveals as much about the construction of Russian identity as it does about the cultural identity of the northern 'others.' This book is an important addition to the growing literature on comparative colonialisms.\u003c\/p\u003e * Virginia Quarterly Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Small Peoples of the North\u003cb\u003ePART I. SUBJECTS OF THE TSAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1. The Unbaptized\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Sovereign's Profit\u003cbr\u003e The Sovereign's Foreigners\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2. The Unenlightened\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The State and the Savages\u003cbr\u003e The State and the Tribute Payers\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3. The Uncorrupted\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e High Culture and the Children of Nature\u003cbr\u003e The Empire and the Aliens\u003cb\u003ePART II. SUBJECTS OF CONCERN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4. The Oppressed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aliens as Neighbors and Tribute Payers as Debtors\u003cbr\u003e The Russian Indians and the Populist Intellectuals\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5. The Liberated\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Commissariat of Nationalities and the Tribes of the Northern Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e The Committee of the North: The Committee\u003cbr\u003e The Committee of the North: The North\u003cb\u003ePART III. CONQUERORS OF BACKWARDNESS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 6. The Conscious Collectivists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Class Struggles in a Classless Society\u003cbr\u003e Hunting and Gathering under Socialism\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 7. The Cultural Revolutionaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The War against Backwardness\u003cbr\u003e The War against Ethnography\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 8. The Uncertain Proletarians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Native Northerners as Industrial Laborers\u003cbr\u003e The North without the Native Northerners\u003cbr\u003e The Long Journey of the Small Peoples\u003cb\u003ePART IV. LAST AMONG EQUALS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 9. The Socialist Nationalities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Socialist Realism in the Social Sciences\u003cbr\u003e Fiction as History\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 10. The Endangered Species\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Planners' Problems and Scholars' Scruples\u003cbr\u003e The Return of Dersu Uzala\u003cbr\u003e Perestroika and the Numerically Small Peoples of the NorthConclusion\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577470488919,"sku":"9780801429767","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arctic-mirrors-russia-and-the-small-peoples-of-the-north-9780801429767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}