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Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship This is a monograph on late Imperial Russian and Soviet policies toward the language of the Buryats, a native people of southeastern Siberias Lake Baikal region. This work can do much to expand our knowledge of an oft-overlooked area of Russian and Soviet national policy. Although the Buryats are Siberias largest indigenous group (numbering around 500,000), they have received far less attention than other non-Russians by scholars of Russias treatment of its minority peoples and their cultures. On a more general level, the book will provide an opportunity to introduce readers to a unique and vibrant native Siberian culture. Finally, this study can help deepen our understanding of the challenges facing the cultural survival of all indigenous peoples in the modern age a matter of urgent importance in the current context of globalization.
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