Author : Rein Taagepera
Release : 2013-11-26
Genre : Political Science
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The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State write by Rein Taagepera. This book was released on 2013-11-26. The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2000. This text provides a survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their languages have set them apart from their Turkic and Russian neighbours and helped to preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Previous works on this subject were written before the demise of the USSR so that information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors. In particular, this book explores the principal threats now facing these peoples - as much environmental as political. Although communism has gone, the exploitation of natural resources threatens the region's ecology, while the new rulers in the Kremlin seem set to continue their predecessors' oppressive policies towards the Finno-Ugrians. The book is written with commitment to the threatened human and political rights of these endangered peoples.