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From Savages to Citizens: The Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Far North, 1928-1938

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine*
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In the mid-1920s the Soviet government singled out about 150,000 ; citizens for an administrative category designated the "small peoples of the north." These were the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic and sub-Arctic zones of the Soviet Union who subsisted on hunting, fishing and reindeer herding and who were seen by bolshevik officials as the most backward peoples of the new republic, languishing in a pitiful and unacceptable state of "semi-savagery and outright savagery." As such, they needed to be understood as a peculiar phenomenon and governed differently from their more "cultured" countrymen.

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Slavic Review , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 52 - 76
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Research for this article was assisted by a grant from the Joint Committee on Soviet ; Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. I would like to thank the participants of the 1990 Human Sciences Workshop at the University of Chicago Fishbein Center for thoughtful criticism; E. Pivovar, for helping me gain access to the archives; and A. Pika, for sharing some of his materials.

1. In recent years Soviet ethnographers have dropped the modifier, but to most j Russians who have heard of their existence they are still “the small peoples” (malye j narody). I

2. V. I. Lenin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 5th ed., vol. 43, 228. The peoples included j were the Saami (Lapps), Khanty (Ostiak), Mansi (Vogul), Nenets (Samoed, lurak), Enets j (Enisei Samoed), Sel kup (Ostiako-Samoed), Nganasan (Tavgi Samoed), Dolgan, Ket (Enisei Ostiak), Evenk (Tungus), Even (Lamut), Iukagir, Chukchi, Koriak, Itel'men (Kamchadal), Eskimo, Aleut, Nivkh (Giliak), Negidal, Nanai (Gol'd), Ul'ch (Mangun), Oroch, Orok, Udege (Tazy) and Tofalar (Karagas). The most common old names are given in parentheses. All names are transliterations of the contemporary Russian singular forms, with the exception of Chukchi and “Asiatic Eskimo,” for whom the traditional English names are used.

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11. “And the foreigners said that since they had abandoned their faith they would not be allowed back on their land.” RIB, vol. 2, 184; Ogryzko, Khristianizatsiia, 16-17.

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14. Ibid., 112.

15. Ibid., 104.

16. PSI, vol. 1, 413-14.

17. By the early twentieth century, any non-Russian could be colloquially referred to as an alien, but the use of the term in the sense of “particularly backward non-Russian” remained prevalent in informal speech and obligatory in legal documents. See L. Shternberg, “Inorodtsy,” in A. P. Kastelianskii, ed., Formy natsional'rwgo dvizheniia v savremermykh gosudarstvakh (St. Petersburg: Obslichestvennaia pol'za, 1910), 531-32.

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31. “Protokol VII rasshirennogo plenuma Komiteta,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 4 (1930): 147.

32. “Vos'moi rasshirennyi plenum Komiteta Severa,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 6 (1931): 154-58.

33. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 933, 11. 9-10; D. F. Medvedev, “Za podgotovku kadrov i vydvizhenie tuzemnykh sovetskikh rabotnikov,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 10 (1931): 12-13.

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35. Davydov, “Ocherednye zadachi kul'turnogo stroitel'stva na Krainem Severe,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 4 (1932): 96-99.

36. Ibid., 96.

37. Skachko, “Osnovnye voprosy sotsialisticheskogo stroitel'stva na Krainem Severe,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 3 (1934): 12.

38. E. D. Kantor, “Kadry na Krainem Severe,” Sovetskaia Arktika, no. 2 (1935): 29.

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44. Medvedev, “Ukrepim sovety,” 6.

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46. S. Akopov, “Bor'ba s bytovymi prestupleniiami,” Revoliutsiia i natsional'nosti, no. 4-5 (1930): 58-63.

47. N. Leonov, “V nizov'iakh Amura,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 2 (1930): 96-97.

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50. Skachkov, “Ob antireligioznoi rabote na Severe,” 53. See also E. Kantor, “Liudi i fakty. Staroe i novoe,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 3-4 (1935): 189.

51. Leonov, “Kul'tbaza v taige,” 88; Kruglov, “O revoliutsionnoi zakonnosti,” 100; K. Sergeeva, “V Urelikskom natssovete,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 1 (1935): 96-97.

52. G. Ul'ianov, “Nabolevshie voprosy,” Prosveshchenie natsional'nostei, no. 1 (1929): 49; A. I. Mineev, Ostrov Vrangelia (Moscow-Leningrad: Glavsevmorput', 1946), 71-72.

53. Semushkin, Chukotka, 167-72.

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56. Bogoraz-Tan, “Religiia, kak tormoz,” 146.

57. Skachkov, “Ob antireligioznoi rabote na Severe,” 52.

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61. Prokof'ev, “Tri goda,” 148; TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 392, 1. 116.

62. Skachkov, “Ob antireligioznoi rabote,” 54.

63. I. Pervukhin, “Sredi malykh narodnostei Sibirskogo kraia,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 5 (1930): 49.

64. V. P. Zisser, “Sredi Verkhne-Kolymskikh tungusov,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 1 (1934): 113.

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67. A. Shepovalova, “Sotsial'no-bytovaia sreda tungusskikh detei na Sev. Baikale,” Pedologiia, no. 2 (1930): 185.

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77. Sergeeva, “V Urelikskom natssovete,” 99.

78. Ibid., 98.

79. Kruglov, “Perevybory sovetov,” 98. See also TsGAOR, /. 3977, op. 1, d. 301, 1. 67; d. 528, 1.35; d. 646, 1.21; d. 682, 1.12; d. 934, 1. 22; A. M. Khazanovich, Krasnyi chum v Khatangskoi tundre (Leningrad: Glavsevmorput', 1939), 24-26.

80. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 528, 1. 35. See also P. Ustiugov, “Samokritika na suglanakh,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 7-8 (1930): 54-55.

81. N. N. Bilibin, “Zhenshchina u koriakov,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 4 (1933): 92-96.

82. I. Barakhov, “V Evenkiiskom natsional'nom okruge,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 3 (1933): 44. See also TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 500, 1. 18-19.

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90. Kantorovich, Po Sovetskoi’ Kamchatke, 154.

91. K. I. Usova, “Rebenok-tungus v shkole,” Pedologiia, no. 2 (1930): 192.

92. V. Senkevich, “V Voitekhovskikh iurtakh,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 6 (1934): 101. See also TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 757, 11. 13-23.

93. Ustiugov, “Samokritika na suglanakh,” 54.

94. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 528, 1. 31. See also Ustiugov, “Samokritika naft suglanakh,” 54.

95. Ustiugov, “Samokritika na suglanakh,” 54.

96. Kantorovich, Po Sovetskoi Kamchatke, 154. See also TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 300, 1. 39; d. 528, 1. 32; d. 642, 1.147; d. 646, 1.21; d. 934, 1. 22; “Sovetskaia shkola u tuzemtsev Tobol'skogo Severa,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 1 (1931): 46; Kruglov, “Perevybory sovetov,” 98-99; T. Semushkin, “Prosveshchenie narodnostei Krainego Severa,” Prosveshchenie natsional'nostei, no. 1 (1932): 31; N. Shakhov, “Rastet natsional'naia kul'tura v tundre i na ostrovakh,” Prosveshchenie natsional'nostei, no. 2-3 (1932): 47; Davydov, “Ocherednye zadachi,” 94; I. Telishev, “God raboty v Ostiatskoi shkole,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 5 (1932): 125-26; Medvedev, “O rabote s bednotoi,” 75; Terent'ev, “Na putiakh k vseobuchu,” 25; Shmyrev, “Iamal'skaia kul'tbaza,” 70; Al'kor, “Zadachi kul'turnogo stroitel'stva,” 30; P. Kovalevskii, “V shkole-iurte,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 2 (1934): 103; A. Bazanov, “Vogul'skie deti,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 3 (1934): 93; Leonov, “Tuzemnye shkoly na Severe,” 200-1.

97. B. Shmyrev, “Iamal'skaia kul'tbaza,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 6 (1933): 70.

98. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 301, 1. 11; “Sovetskaia shkola u tuzemtsev Tobol'skogo Severa,” 46.

99. Kovalevskii, “V shkole-iurte,” 104; Semushkin, Chukotka, 72.

100. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 936, 1. 27; Putintseva, “Dva goda raboty,” 169, 174; Kovalevskii, “V shkole-iurte,” 104; Semushkin, Chukotka, 71-72.

101. Shmyrev, “Iamal'skaia kul'tbaza,” 73.

102. Davydov, “Ocherednye zadachi,” 99; Telishev, “God raboty,” 127; Gilev, “Zapiski,” 92; Bazanov, Shkola na Krainem Severe, 119-21.

103. P. Sletov, “Ot iukoly k kartofeliu,” Prosveshchenie natsional'nostei, no. 7-8 (1931): 64; Khazanovich, Krasnyi chum, 25.

104. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 497, 11. 4-5; d. 990, 11.58-59.

105. Leonov, “Tuzemnye shkoly na Severe,” 204. See also Davydov, “Ocherednye zadachi,” 96; Sergeeva, “V Urelikskom natssovete,” 97-98; K. Sergeeva, “Shkola v bukhte Provideniia,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 2 (1935): 54.

106. Komov, “Rabota v chukotskoi shkole,” 73.

107. Semushkin, Chukotka, 48.

108. Semushkin, “Opyt raboty,” 177-82; Shmyrev, “Iamal'skaia kul'tbaza,” 73; Kovalevskii, “V shkole-iurte,” 105; Sergeeva, “Shkola v bukhte Provideniia,” 57; Bazanov, Shkola na Krainem Severe, 131-33; Semushkin, Chukotka, 37, 43, 49, 90-99.

109. Prokof ev, “Tri goda,” 148-50.

110. Sergeeva, “Shkola v bukhte Provideniia,” 57; see also P. Skorik, “Molodye pobegi Sakhalinskoi taigi,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 4 (1932): 108.

111. Most teachers’ accounts are by political activists. The “silent majority” of northern educators had nothing to do with the cultural revolution and, like the teacher Ugriumov, “did nothing but drink, so that, after one drinking orgy accompanied by a fight, one Nenets got his skull cracked open” (Terent'ev, “Na putiakh k vseobuchu,” 26).

112. V., “Neobkhodimo raskachat'sia,” Okhotnik i rybak Sibiri, no. 6 (1929): 11.

113. Komov, “Rabota v Chukotskoi shkole,” 77-78.

114. V. G. Bogoraz-Tan, “Chukotskii bukvar',” Sovetskii Sever, no. 10 (1931): 125-28.

115. Prokof'ev, “Tri goda,” 148-49; Bazanov, Shkola na Krainem Severe, 98-100, 131-133; Semushkin, Chukotha, 49, 62-64, 90, 102; Kantor, “Liudi i fakty,” 189-90.

116. Prokof'ev, “Tri goda,” 145; Alachev, “Novyi byt u ostiakov,” 136; Leonov, “Tuzemnye shkoly,” 203.

117. TsGAOR, f. 3977, op. 1, d. 945, 11. 7-19; “Sovetskaia shkola u tuzemtsev Tobol'skogo Severa,” 46; Davydov, “Ocherednye zadachi,” 98; Telishev, “God raboty,” 127; Al'kor, “Zadachi kul'turnogo stroitel'stva,” 27; Terletskii, “Kul'tbazy Komiteta Severa,” 41-42.

118. P. Nikolaev, “Natsional'nye shkoly na Sakhaline,” Prosveshchenie natsional'nostei, no. 4 (1934): 45; Senkevich, “V Voitekhovskikh iurtakh,” 103-5; Skorik, “Molodye pobegi Sakhalinskoi taigi,” 108.

119. Comp. K. Koril'skii, “O zaezzhikh domakh dlia tuzemtsev,” Sovetskii Sever, no. 9-12 (1930): 160; Solomonov, “Kul'tstroitel'stvo na Severe,” 138.

120. V., “Neobkhodimo raskachat'sia,” 11; Bulanov, I, “Materialy po izucheniiu povedeniia rebenka-tungusa,” Pedologiia, no. 2 (1930): 200 Google Scholar; Kantor, “liudi i fakty,” 190-92; Semushkin, Chuhotka, 28.

121. Ustiugov, “Tuzemnye sovety,” 25-28; Semushkin, Chukotka, 127-29.

122. B-ov, “Budni krasnykh iurt,” 64; Semushkin, “Opyt raboty,” 185-86; BogorazTan, “Religiia, kak tormoz,” 149; Semushkin, Chukotka, 71-72, 166-67.

123. Semushkin, Chukotka, 161.

124. Semushkin, “Opyt raboty,” 182; Semushkin, Chukotka, 77, 94, 227.

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