The Finno-Ugric republics and the Russian state
By: Rein Taagepera.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Finno-Ugrians -- Russia (Federation)
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-434) and index.