The politics of nationalism in the Republic of Sakha (Northeastern Siberia), 1900-2000 : ethnic conflicts under the Soviet regime / Tatiana Argounova-Low, with a foreword by Piers Vitebsky
The Republic of Sakha (Yakutiia) -- Political history -- Taatta ulus -- Soviet understandings of natsionalizm -- Silence -- Political movements (1900s-1930s) -- Political climate -- Intelligentsia and elite -- Political unions of the Sakha intelligentsia -- Punishment -- Natsionalizm as a principle of inclusion and exclusion -- Natsionalizm as a form of witchcraft -- Cultural movement s (1900s -- 1930s) -- Taatta as rural heartland -- Proletarian aesthetics -- Traditions of Olonkho -- Cultural societies -- The Taatta dialect as a basis for the written literary Sakha language -- Punishment -- Natsionalizm as an expression of xenophobia -- Punishment continued: Basharin and his book on the writers -- Drunken fight in a Taatta village, 1954 -- Drunken fight -- Punishment -- Natsionalizm as a rationale for scapegoating -- Natsionalizm as an expression of paranoia -- Hostilities on Friendship Square, Yakutsk, 1986 -- Fight on the skating-rink -- Industrial development -- Demographic situation -- No friendship on Friendship Square -- Instigated event? -- Natsionalist slant -- Punishment -- Natsionalizm as constructed deviance -- Taatta revisited -- Breaking the vicious circle -- Breaking the silence -- Taatta rehabilitation -- The KGB's apologies -- Dmitrii Kusturov -- My father -- Museums -- Natsionalizm as a smokescreen -- "The perfect member of a society" or "is there immunity from natsionalizm?" -- The "enemy" -- Nationalism and natsionalizm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-174) and index
