Conversations with Power : Soviet and post-Soviet developments in thereindeer husbandry part of the Kola Peninsula

• Main Author: Konstantinov, Yulian
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi 2015
• Subjects: Kola Peninsula; Lovozero District; Sami people; reindeer husbandry; collectivisation; personal reindeer; grassroots-to-power discourse; mega-speech events; Lovozero; Murmansk; Pinnacle; Pyramid; kola peninsula; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-265431

The book examines the way people talk with power – and power talks back to them – in the context of authoritarian state regimes, the Soviet/Russian one being the case in point. My claim is, in the first place, that there does exist such a conversation. I thus strongly resist the reading of recent So...