World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

General

AdygeaNatPress (Information about the Adygeyan (Circassian) diaspora): http://www.natpress.net/

Akiner, S., Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union, London, Kegan Paul, 1986.

Amnesty International. ‘Russian Federation: Violent racism out of control', 4 May 2006, Amnesty International, retrieved 30 March 2007, http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engeur460162006

Bowring, Bill ‘Burial and Resurrection: Karl Renner's controversial influence on the ‘National Question' in Russia' in Ephraim Nimni (ed) National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics (Routledge, 2005) pp.191-206

Bowring, Bill ‘Austro-Marxism's Last Laugh?: The Struggle for Recognition of National-Cultural Autonomy for Rossians and Russians' (March 2002) v.54, n.2 Europe-Asia Studies pp.229-250

Bowring, Bill ‘Ancient Peoples and New Nations in the Russian Federation: Questions of Theory and Practice' in Stephen Tierney (ed) Accommodating National Identity: New Approaches in International and Domestic Law (Kluwer Law International, 2000)

Caucasian Knot (News): http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/

Cornell, Svante. ‘Conflicts in the North Caucasus'. Central Asian Survey 17, No.3 (1998): 409-441.

Forsyth, James. History of the Peoples of Siberia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gorenburg, Dmitry P. Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Honk, Lauri, Senni Timonen and Michael Branch, eds. The Great Bear. A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages, translated by Keith Bosley. New York: Oxford University Press and the Finnish Literature Society, 1994.

Jaimoukha, Amjad. The Circassians. A Handbook. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001.

KavkazWeb (news of the Caucasus): http://www.kavkazweb.net/

Knox, Zoe. ‘Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Nationalism, and Patriarch Aleksii II'. Nationalities Papers 33, No.4 (December 2005): 533-545.

Kohler, Thomas and Kathrin Wessendorf, eds. Towards a new millennium, the years of the indigenous movement in Russia, translated by Vladislav Tsarev et al. International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2002.

Kolsto, Pal and Helge Blakkisrud, eds. Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Krag, H. and Funch, L., The North Caucasus: Minorities at a Crossroads, London, MRG report 1994.

Lankina, Tomila. Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Marsh, Christopher, ed. Burden or Blessing: Russian Orthodoxy and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy. Boston: Institute of Religion, Culture and World Affairs: Boston University: 2004.

Matveeva, A.,The South Caucasus: Nationalism, Conflict and Minorities, MRG report, London, 2002.

Radio Free Europe Caucasus Report: http://www.rferl.org/reports/caucasus-report

Reid, Anna. The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia. Walker and Company, 2003.

Shamanism, Folklore, and Poetry: http://www.buryatmongol.com/

Simonsen, Sven Gunnar. ‘Between Minority Rights and Civil Liberties: Russia's Discourse Over ‘Nationality' Registration and the Internal Passport'. Nationalities Papers 33, No.2 (June 2005): 211-229.

Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. Cornell University Press, 1996.

Smith, G. (ed.), The Nationalities Question in the Post-Soviet States, London, Longman, 1996.

Vakhtin, N., Native Peoples of the Russian Far North, London, MRG report, 1992; and in MRG (ed.), Polar Peoples: Self-Determination and Development, London, Minority Rights Publications, 1994.

Ware, Robert Bruce and Enver Kisriev. ‘Prospects for political stability and economic development in Dagestan'. Central Asian Survey 21, No.2 (2002): 143-156.

Wixman, R., The Peoples of the Soviet Union, Armonk, NY, Macmillan, 1984.

Xanthaki, Alexandra. ‘Indigenous Rights in the Russian Federation: The Case of Numerically Small Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia, and Far East'. Human Rights Quarterly 26 (2004): 74-105.

Zelkina, Anna. In Quest for God and Freedom. Sufi Responses to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus. London: Hurst and Company, 2000.

Buryats

Buryat in Russia, Minorities at Risk: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/rusburyt.htm

Zhukovskaia, N.L. ‘The Revival of Buddhism in Buryatia: Problems and Prospects'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 39, no.4 (2001): 21-47.

Kalmyks

Guchinova, Elsa Bair M. ‘Kalmyks in the United States: A Kaleidoscope of Identities'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 41, no.2 (2002): 7-22.

Republic of Kalmykia (official website): http://www.kalm.ru/

Tuvans

D'iakonova, V.P. ‘Lamaism and its influence on the worldview and religious cults of the Tuvans'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 39, no.4 (2001): 52-75.

Friends of Tuva (information about Tuvan music): http://www.fotuva.org/music/index.html

Leighton, Ralph. Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey. W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

The Postage Stamps of Tuva: http://www.si-usa.com/tuva

The Tuva Trader (Tuvan goods and culture): http://www.scs-intl.com/trader

Zhukovskaia, N.L. ‘Lamaism in Tuva'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 39, no.4 (2001): 48-49.

Tatars

Crews, Robert D (2006) For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Boston: Harvard University Press)

Gorenburg, Dmitry P. Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Minorities at Risk, Assessment for Tatars in Russia: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36505

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Tatar-Bashkir daily report: http://www.rferl.org/reports/tb-daily-report

Republic of Tatarstan (official website): http://www.tatar.ru/english

Rorlich, Azade-Ayse. The Volga Tatars. A Profile in National Resilience. Hoover Institution Press, 1986.

The Tatar Gazette (news about Tatars): http://tatar.yuldash.com/eng_052.html

Bashkirs

Bashkortostan Republic (official website): http://www.bashkortostan.ru/

Gabdrafikov, Ildar and Henry E. Hale. ‘Bashkortostan's Democratic Movement? Patronal Presidentialism, Regional Regime Change, and Identity in Russia'. (Slavic Research Centre of Hokkaido University, 2005), retrieved 30 March 2007, http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no10_ses/04_gab_hale.pdf

Gorenburg, Dmitry P. Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Tatar-Bashkir daily report): http://www.rferl.org/reports/tb-daily-report

Chechens

Amnesty International. Russian Federation: Violations continue, no justice in sight. A briefing paper on human rights violations in the context of the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic (July 2005), retrieved 30 March 2007, http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR460292005?open&of=ENG-RUS

A Small Corner of Hell. Dispatches from Chechnya. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Chechen Press(News about Chechen resistance): http://www.chechenpress.info/

De Waal, Thomas and Carlotta Gall. Chechnya. A Small Victorious War. London: Pan, 1997.

EHRAC Bulletin, 6 issues, with analysis of the Strasbourg cases and other materials, at http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/hrsj/ehrac/ehrac-bulletin/home.cfm

Hewitt, George, ed. Special issue of Central Asian Survey dedicated to Chechnya. Central Asian Survey 22, No.4 (December 2003).

Politkovskaya, Anna. A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya. Harvill, 2001.

Radio Free Europe Crisis in Chechnya Reports: http://www.rferl.org/specials/chechnya

Tishkov, Valery. The Anthropology of a War-Torn Society. The Cultural Dynamics of the Chechen Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Ingush

Broxup, Marie Bennigsen, ed. 1992. The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance toward the Muslim World. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. 1996. The Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region. New York: Human Rights Watch.

Ingushetiya.ru News: http://ingushetiya.ru/

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. Ingushetia: ‘Disappearances', Extrajudicial killings and Unlawful Detentions December 2003-June 2004, retrieved 2 April 2007, http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=6070#search=%22June%202004%2C%20Nazran%22

Karachay and Cherkess

‘Republic of Karachay Cherkessia' Circassian World, retrieved 2 April 2007, http://www.circassianworld.com/Karachay-Cherkessia.html

Adygey

Information Portal: http://www.adygi.ru/

Republic of Adygheya', Circassian World, retrieved 2 April 2007, http://www.circassianworld.com/Adygherep.html

Lezgins

Lezgins in Russia, Risk assessment: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/ruslezg.htm

Chuvash

Volga-Ural Page (Devoted to the scholarly study of the region): http://www.scsv.nevada.edu/~werthp/Volga-Ural.html

Chuvash People's Website (news about the Chuvash language and culture): http://en.chuvash.org

Ossetians

Birch, Julian. ‘Ossetiya - land of uncertain frontiers and manipulative elites'. Central Asian Survey 18, No.4 (1999): 501-534.

Radio Free Europe Caucasus Reports. Accessible at http://www.rferl.org/reports/caucasus-report

Altai

Filatov, Sergei. ‘Altai Burkhanism: Faith or a dream of faith?'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 39, no.4 (2001): 76-91.

Altai Republic (official portal): http://eng.altai-republic.ru/index.php?newlang=eng

Kovalchuk, Julia. ‘Contemporary Religious Situation in the South-Western Siberia: New Developments and Change of the Traditional Religious-Ethnic Patterns'. Paper presented at the Centre for Studies on New Religions conference ‘Religious movements, Globalization and Conflict: Transnational Perspectives', 2-5 June 2005, retrieved 2 April 2007, http://www.cesnur.org/2005/pa_kovalchuk.htm

Reid, Anna. The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia. Walker and Company, 2003.

Khakass

K. Van Deusen, ‘The Sleeping Warrior. New Legends in the Rebirth of Khakass Shamanic Culture' (1999), retrieved 2 April 2007, http://www.kiravan.com/Sleepwarrior.htm

Yakuts

Minorities at Risk, Assessment for Yakut in Russia: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36538

Minorities at Risk historical chronology of Sakha-Yakutia: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=36538

Nenets

Golovnev, Andrei and Gail Oroshenko. The Nenets and their story. Cornell University Press, 1999.

The Endangered Uralic Peoples: http://www.suri.ee/eup

Dolgan

Administration of Taimyr Autonomous Area (official site): http://www.taimyr.ru/

Evenk

Evenk Autonomous okrug (official website): http://www.evenkya.ru/

Vorob'ev, D.V. and Laura Esther Wolfson. ‘Subsistence and adaptive strategies among the Evenki in the late twentieth century: In the North Turukhansk District of Krasnoyarsk Territory'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 43, no.1 (2004): 8-45.

Chukchi

Native Peoples of Siberia (links to other sites): http://www.buryatmongol.com/sibnative.html

Patty A. Gray. The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Koryaks

Koryak Net: http://www.koryaks.net/

Karelians

Articles and papers on Karelian language planning: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4280/eng_index.html

Karelian Republic (official website): http://www.gov.karelia.ru/

Mari

Mari-El Republic (official website): http://www.gov.mari.ru/

Mari opposition website: http://www.mari.ee/

Appeal On Belhalf of the Mari People: http://www.ugri.info/mari

Udmurts

Honk, Lauri, Senni Timonen and Michael Branch, eds. The Great Bear. A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages, translated by Keith Bosley. New York: Oxford University Press and the Finnish Literature Society, 1994.

http://www.udm.ru/ - website providing an Udmurt directory.

http://www.udmurt.ru/ - official website of the Udmurt Republic

Minniakhmetova, Tatiana. ‘Sacrificial Rites of the Udmurts on the Eastern Bank of the River Kama', Folklore, no.17 (2001, Tartu), accessible at http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol17/udmurts.pdf#search=%22ethnic%20Udmurts%22

Mordovans

Mordva (documents with information about people living in Mordovia): http://www.mordva.ru/

Komi

Komi Republic (official website): http://www.rkomi.ru/

Komi Republic Information: http://www.komi.com/

Tsypanov, E. ‘Language and ethnic mobilization among the Komi in the post-Soviet period'. Nationalities Papers 29, no.1 (2001): 109-128.

Khants and Mansi

Khanty-Mansi AOk - Yurga (official site): http://www.hmao.wsnet.ru/

Wiget, Andrew. Black Snow. Oil and the Eastern Khanty (New Mexico State University, 1997). Report, The New Mexico Heritage Center, retrieved 2April 2007, http://www.nmsu.edu/~english/hc/IMPACTOIL.html

Jews

Heritage (news about Jews in Russia): http://www.russianjews.org/

Jewish Virtual History Tour, Russia: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/russia.html

Jews in Russia (a select bibliography of works in the British Library): http://www.bl.uk/collections/easteuropean/jewsrus.html

Ukrainians, Belarusians and Kazakhs

Cipko, Serge. Ukrainians in Russia. A Bibliographic and Statistical Guide. Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press,

Kappeler, Andreas, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn and Mark von Hagen, eds. Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945). Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003.

Naumova, Olga. ‘The Kazakh Diaspora in Russia: Ethnic Self-awareness and Migration'. Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia 41, no.2 (2002): 23-42.

Trenin, Dmitri. ‘Changing Belarus', Chaillot Paper no. 85, edited by Dov Lynch, 2005. Originally published by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, retrieved 2April 2007, http://www.iss-eu.org/chaillot/chai85.pdf

Russian or Volga Germans

Volga Germans: http://www.volgagermans.net/

Koch, Fred C. and Jacob Eichhorn. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978)

Meskhetians or Meskhetian Turks

Blacklock, Denika. Finding Durable Solutions for the Meskhetians. A Presentation of Preliminary Findings and a Roundtable Discussion with Government and Civil Society Actors in Georgia (August 2005). Accessible at http://www.ecmi.de/download/report_56.pdf

Pentikäinen, Oskari and Tom Trier. Between Integration and Resettlement. The Meskhetian Turks. ECMI Working Paper #21 (August 2004). Accessible at http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_21b.pdf

Technical Cooperation Centre for Europe and Central Asia. Deported Peoples of the Former Soviet Union: The Case of the Meskhetians. International Organization for Migration, 1998.

Roma

Minorities At Risk Risk, Assessment for Roma in Russia: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36517

ERC, Roma Rights Quarterly: http://www.errc.org/Romarights_index.php

RomNews Society: http://www.romnews.com/

Cossacks

Central Armed Forces Museum of Russia, The History of Cossacks: http://www.armymuseum.ru/kaz1_e.html

Cossack Dance: http://www.barynya.com/barynya/Cossack's_Dance.htm

History of Cossacks XV-XXI cent: http://www.cossackdom.com/index.html

Malashenko, Alexei and Vitkovskaya, Galina. Cossack Revival: Hopes and Fears. Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Centre Occasional Papers, #23, 1998.

Ure, John. The Cossacks: An Illustrated History. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 2003.

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