The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State

Etukansi
Routledge, 26.11.2013 - 340 sivua
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.
 

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Chapter 1 The FinnoUgric Republics in the World Context
1
Chapter 2 Historical Overview
30
Hungary Finland Estonia
82
Orthodox Finland
100
The Siamese Twins
147
Europes Last Animists
197
The Redhead Children of the Sun
253
The Northernmost Alphabet
294
The Curse of Arctic Oil
337
Chapter 10 FinnoUgric Republics and the Future of Russian Democracy
388
Appendix Geographical and Ethnographic Name Equivalents
413
Bibliography
415
Index
435
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