Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

by Alexia Bloch

Book Overview

In this book Alexia Bloch examines the experiences of a community of Evenki, an indigenous group in central Siberia, to consider the place of residential schooling inidentity politics in contemporary Russia. Residential schools established in the 1920s brought Siberians under the purview of the Soviet state, and Bloch demonstrates how in the post-Soviet era, a time of jarring social change, these schools continue to embody the salience of Soviet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237595
• ISBN13: 9780812237597
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"