Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small People of the North by: Slezkine, Yuri
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, Revised Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a vividly rendered history of the circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire. No other book in any language links the history of this colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. Clean copy. Record # 34026
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