The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State

ISBN-13: 9780415919777 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 464 str.

Rein Taagepera

Opis

This is a comprehensive survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their languages have set them apart from their Turkic and Russian neighbours, and helped preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Little has previously been available in English on these peoples, as information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors.
The principal threat now facing the Finno-Ugrians is as much environmental as political: communism has gone, but exploitation of natural resources threatens the region's ecology, while the new rulers in the Kremlin seem set to continue their predecessors' oppressive policies towards the Finno-Ugrians.

Spis treści

The Finno-Ugric Republics in the world context; historical overview; Western Finno-Ugric nations - Hungary, Finland, Estonia; Karelia - orthodox Finland; Moksherzia - the bee-keepers; Mariel - Europe's last animists; Udmurtia - the Redhead Sun children; Kominu - the northernmost alphabet; Hanti-Mansia and Nenetsia - the Arctic oil curse; Finno-Ugric Republics and the future of Russian democracy.

O autorze

Rein Taagepera