A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
by James Forsyth
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Author: James ForsythEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-10-28
ISBN: 0521477719
Number of pages: 475
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: A Sad Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This book may well be the very best history of the native peoples of Siberia and their conquest by the Russians in the past centuries.
Though the title is exaggrating a bit - with Siberia today having an overwhelmingly Russian majority population I don't find it more of a "colony" than the USA, Canada, or Australia, where natives have been even more outnumbered by European settlers - the book itself is very thoroughly-researched, amazingly up to date and is even fair enough to compare the current situation of the Siberian peoples to that of Northern minorities elsewhere.
No doubt, it is a somewhat disturbing read - but then so is the situation of these often diminishing ethinc groups even today.
Summary of A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, and presents to an anglophone audience a vast corpus of previously inaccessible ethnographic and linguistic material. It covers from the early history of Siberia after the Russian conquest to collectivization and conscription during World War II and to the 1980s movement ror native rights. In this, the first substantive "post-Glasnost" account to appear, James Forsyth compares the Siberian experience with that of Indians and Eskimos in North America.Renaissance Books
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