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Demographic Dynamics of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian North. / Klokov, Konstantin B.; Khrushchev, Sergey A.
In: Sibirica, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010, p. 41-65.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Demographic Dynamics of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian North
AU - Klokov, Konstantin B.
AU - Khrushchev, Sergey A.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article surveys the population dynamics of twenty-six indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Russian North, using the data from eight General Censuses of Russia (1897-2002), and the Polar Census of 1926/27. The article demonstrates that each of these peoples responded to central state policies in diverse ways, and that often different populations of the same group showed differing trends in different regions. During the Soviet period there was strong assimilative pressure on the indigenous small-numbered peoples. The opposite tendency is evident in the post-Soviet period—a process referred to in this article as "ethnic re-identification."Because there was little inter-regional migration of the indigenous peoples, we conclude that the population dynamics of each nationality in each region is the result of the interplay among fertility, mortality, assimilation, and ethnic re-identification.
AB - This article surveys the population dynamics of twenty-six indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Russian North, using the data from eight General Censuses of Russia (1897-2002), and the Polar Census of 1926/27. The article demonstrates that each of these peoples responded to central state policies in diverse ways, and that often different populations of the same group showed differing trends in different regions. During the Soviet period there was strong assimilative pressure on the indigenous small-numbered peoples. The opposite tendency is evident in the post-Soviet period—a process referred to in this article as "ethnic re-identification."Because there was little inter-regional migration of the indigenous peoples, we conclude that the population dynamics of each nationality in each region is the result of the interplay among fertility, mortality, assimilation, and ethnic re-identification.
KW - ASSIMILATION
KW - CENSUS
KW - DEMOGRAPHIC POLITICS
KW - DEMOGRAPHIC SUSTAINABILITY
KW - ETHNIC RE-IDENTIFICATION
KW - MODERNISM
KW - NORTH
KW - SIBERIA
KW - TRADITIONALISM
U2 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2010.090303
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2010.090303
M3 - Article
VL - 9
SP - 41
EP - 65
JO - Sibirica
JF - Sibirica
SN - 1361-7362
IS - 3
ER -
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