Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Approaches to Soviet Policy towards Northern and Far Eastern Peoples 3
6. Pre-revolutionary Conditions 15
7. Early Soviet Policy 29
8. Stalin and After 50
9. Northern Education during the 1980s 62
10. Perestroika, the Association of Northern Peoples, and the End of the USSR 80
11. Postscript: Some Comparisons between Soviet and Canadian Policy towards Aboriginal Peoples 94
12. Appendices 101
13. Benefits for Students at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, 1981-82 103
14. Graduates of the Faculty of Peoples of Northern Regions, 1952-1965 104
15. Curricula and Required Work for FPNR Programs, 1981-82 105
16. References 115
17. Index 123