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The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions

David G. Anderson (Editor)
"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian Indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project." * Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution. In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic

eBook, English, 2011
Berghahn Books, Inc., New York, 2011