Encyclopedia of European Peoples
Encyclopedia of European Peoples

Author: Carl Waldman

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 975

ISBN-13: 1438129181

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Presents an alphabetical listing of information on the origins, prehistory, history, culture, languages, relationships to other cultures and more regarding European peoples.

The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State
The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State

Author: Rein Taagepera

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1136678085

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First Published in 2000. This text provides a 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 to preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Previous works on this subject were written before the demise of the USSR so that information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors. In particular, this book explores the principal threats now facing these peoples - as much environmental as political. Although communism has gone, the 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. The book is written with commitment to the threatened human and political rights of these endangered peoples.

The Uralic Language Family
The Uralic Language Family

Author: Angela Marcantonio

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2002-06-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780631231707

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In this detailed survey of Finnish, Hungarian, Lapp and the other Uralic Languages, Angela Marcantonio shows there is in fact no scientific evidence to support the belief that they form a genetic family. If this approach is accepted, this detailed analysis will have far-reaching consequences for other assumed language families.

Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis No. 2
Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis No. 2

Author: Henry N. Michael

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1962-12-15

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 148759111X

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This collection of translations from articles by Russian scholars continues the valuable contribution to Western knowledge of the anthropology of the North which is being made under the sponsorship of the Arctic Institute of North America. The subjects treated include: "The Ethnic Affiliation of the Population in the Northwest of the Yakut A.S.S.R." (with related papers); "Ancient Petroglyphs and Modern Decorative Art in the Amur Region"; "Contributions to the History of the Buryat People"; "On the Origin of the Kirgiz People"; "The Origins and Ethnic Composition of the Koybals"; "Volga-Oka Place Names and Some Problems of the Ethnogenesis of the Finno-Urgic Peoples of the Nganasans," nomadic hunters of tundra and forest like many of the other tribes studied. Volume II in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources.

A Geography of the Soviet Union
A Geography of the Soviet Union

Author: John C. Dewdney

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1483157997

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A Geography of the Soviet Union, Third Edition presents the significant geographical elements of the contemporary U.S.S.R. This book explores the human, economic, and political conditions and problems posed by the various geographical features. Organized into 11 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the comparison of the relative sizes of U.S.A, U.K., and U.S.S.R. This text then provides a detailed account of the main features of the geological structure of the Soviet Union. Other chapters consider the latitude distribution of the land area of the U.S.S.R. that is extremely significant in the effect it has on climatic conditions. This book discusses as well the historical geography of Soviet Union, tracing the stages by which so large an area has been brought within the frontiers of a single political unit. This book is intended to be suitable for fifth and sixth level pupils in school as well as for first-year university students.