Article
Review of: The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions by David G. Anderson
Choice Reviews
(2012)
Abstract
The 1926 census was the first concerted effort by the Soviet government to take stock of its indigenous North Asian populations--reindeer herders and hunters belonging to some 30 ethnicities who nomadized far from urban centers. Because the world these tribes inhabited would change forever a few years later during Stalin's collectivization and sedentarization campaigns, the documentation left by census-taking expeditions to the North provides an invaluable portrait of traditional lifeways across Siberia and the Far East.P
Keywords
- Polar census expeditions
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 1, 2012
Citation Information
Edward J. Vajda. "Review of: The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions by David G. Anderson" Choice Reviews Vol. 49 Iss. 5 (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/edward_vajda/77/