Author: Gray, Patty Anne [1960 - ]
Title: The Predicament of Chukotka’s Indigenous Movement: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge Unviersity Press, (2005). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xxiv,276 pp. Textual maps & illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Chukotka in the twenty-first century; Vignette: 1948; Epitomizing events: Vignette: 1956; Starting a movement in Chukotka: Vignette: 1967; The limits of resistance: Vignette: 1971; Toward a history of Soviet Chukotka Vignette: 1980; Indigenous culture in a Russian space: Vignette: 1989; Transformation of local politics in Chukotka; Vignette: 1996; Socio-economic conditions in post-Soviet Chukotka ["This is the first ethnography of the Russian North to focus on post-Soviet relations of domination between an indigenous minority and a non-indigenous majority in an urban setting. Patty Gray charts the political transformation in Chukotka as its administration sought to represent itself as "democratic" while becoming ever more repressive, especially toward the indigenous population. The "predicament" refers to how the nascent indigenous movement was prepared to address Soviet-style domination, and instead was confronted with this "new Russian" style." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Soviet Union, Russia Far North, Ethnicity Ethnic, Indigenous Movement, Chukchi Peninsula, Russian Federation, Chukotskii Politics, Siberia Chukot