Title: The Finno-Ugric republics and the Russian state /
Authors: Taagepera, Rein.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Finno-Ugrians Russia (Federation)
Abstract: "This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric Languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian Federation. Information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors, and only recently have alternative sources of information become available." "The principal threat facing the Finno-Ugrians in the post-Soviet World is as much environmental as political. Communism has gone, but exploitation of natural resources threatens the region's ecology, while the tendency of latter-day rulers in the Kremlin seems to be to continue their predecessors' oppressive policies towards the Finno-Ugrians. The book has been written with a deep commitment to the threatened human and political rights of these endangered peoples."--Jacket.
Contents: 1. The Finno-Ugric Republics in the world context -- 2. Historical overview -- 3. Western Finno-Ugric nations : Hungary, Finland, Estonia -- 4. Karelia : Orthodox Finland (by Ott Kurs and Rein Taagepera) -- 5. Moksherzia (Mordovia) : the Siamese Twins -- 6. Mariel : Europe's last animists -- 7. Udmurtia : the redhead children of the sun -- 8. Komimu : the northernmost alphabet -- 9. Hanti-Mansia and Nenetsia : the curse of Arctic oil -- 10. Finno-Ugric republics and the future of Russian democracy.