Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis excellent study provides a much-needed view of history unfolding across this vast region for historians, political scientists, and scholars interested in Siberia's native peoples.
* Choice *
Galvanizing Nostalgia? opens with a very rich introduction in which the author argues for the need to study the Indigenous peoples of Siberia in contemporary Russia, explains the reasons for cultural and political revitalisation amongst groups that have their own republics, and defines indigeneity, sovereignty and nostalgia.
* Europe Asia Studies *
The information value of the book is unique, due to a very committed and long standing immersion in Sakha-Yakutia, Buryatia and Tyva.
* Euroasian Geography and Economics *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contested Ecological, Cultural, and Political Sovereignty in Russia
1. Sakha Republic (Yakutia): Resource Rich and Pivotal
2. Republic of Buryatia: Gerrymandered and Struggling
3. Republic of Tyva (Tuva): A Borderline State with Demographic Advantages
4. Crossover Trends: Eurasianism, Competition, Cooperation, and Protest
Conclusions: Federalism, Cultural Dignity, and Nostalgia
