Arctic mirrors. Russia and small peoples of the North

The book of a professor at the University of California in Berkeley Yuri Slezkin, an author of the intellectual bestseller, Era Mercury: Jews in the modern world "(2005), is dedicated to the mystery of cultural alien. For several centuries, power, science and literature again and again opened, interpreted and tried to change the life of the indigenous peoples of the North. These clashes did not pass without a trace for the ideas of Russians/Russians about themselves, about civilization, about humanity. The figures reflected in the "Arctic mirrors" of Russian self -awareness - a foreigner, a foreigner, a foreigner, the national, the primitive communist, the last native - appear in the book with a product of complex interaction, not reduced to the cliches of colonial domination and exploitation.
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