When the North was red : aboriginal education in Soviet Siberia / Dennis A. Bartels, Alice L. Bartels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Approaches to Soviet policy towards Northern and Far Eastern Peoples -- Pre-revolutionary conditions -- Early Soviet policy -- Stalin and after -- Northern education during the 1980s -- Perestroika, the Association of Northern Peoples, and the end of the USSR -- Postscript: Some comparisons between Soviet and Canadian policy towards Aboriginal Peoples -- Appendix 1: Occupational data on families of FPNR students -- Appendix 2: Benefits for students at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, 1981-82 -- Appendix 3: Graduates of the faculty of Peoples of Northern Regions, 1952-65 -- Appendix 4: Curricula and required work for FPNR programs 1981-82 -- Index.

An anthropologist and an ethnologist tell the story of the interaction between aboriginal culture and Soviet education and social policies and practices through the entire period from 1917 to 1989. They show the varying success of the Soviet determination to protect native languages and occupations while allowing people to participate in socialist institutions such as schools, collective farms, and the Communist Party. For the final years, they describe how aboriginal political activists sought to protect aborigines in nations where they were a minority, and wrestled with the enduring tradeoff between improving people's lives and preserving national traditions.

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