week 19 Flashcards
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reindeer people
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- predictable reindeer migrating patterns allowed following them
- said that “reindeers domesticated humanity”
2
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USSR
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- Stalin: utilitarian industrialization
3
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Two Main Indigenous groups
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- Steppe Nomads (Southern Siberia): led to Mongolia and Khaz.
- Small Peoples (north
4
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Small People
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- 26 Ethnic groups
5
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Linguistic Groups (3)
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- Uralic (FInno-Urgic, Samoed)
- Altaic (Turkic, Tungusic)
- Paleoasiatic
6
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Bolshevik Legislation on the north
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-cancelled debts to fur traders
- banned sale of alcahol
- absolved from paying taxes
-introduced consumder cooperative to curb activities of private traders
- all good but little impact on indigenous peoples (general economics)
7
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Mobile Proletariates
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-new title for little people when incorporating them into natural resource “management” to help extract
8
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Marxism
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- economics: forces and relations of production
9
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Revolution TLDR
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- Bolsheviks wanted to civilize small peoples
- centralized policies did not work and local admin became corrupt
- Marxist ideals shaped gov. policy but also social scientist who studies indig people
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11
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Convertion Approach (civilizing)
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- Converting women and children to communism first
- women Hygiene
- children schoo
12
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Ugrian and Samoyed
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- almost direct affects of revolution felt
- ## retained power (when bolsheviks in power)
13
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Tungus
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- Most widely dispersed
- easy prey for aggressive neighbours
- many lost hired labourers and assimilated into other cultures
- ## Solviets attemptede to modernize them (culturally was the main goal)
14
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Buryat Mongols
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- mobilized during WW1
- ## were able to maintain buddism and shammanism (until around the 1920)
15
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AltaiSayan
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- got involved by government and mobilized
-struggled under solviets economically - managed to maintain way of life