Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic by Laur Vallikivi illustrated Madrid and London

Madrid and London

A drama of ambition

highlighting the role of women in the Comintern and the centrality of anti-colonialism to the Communist project

politicians

These factors combined to undermine popular support for Soviet power and confidence in the Communist project

Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic by Laur Vallikivi illustrated Madrid and London"A masterpiece! Words and Silences presents an unusually rich ethnography on a part of a community in Europe's farthest Arctic Northeast, with a focus on an extremely difficult topic to do fieldwork on" Florian Stammler, author of Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the "End of the Land" Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian