Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival
of Russia in its nominally federal form. Will Russia fall
apart along the lines of its internal republics, as did the Soviet
Union? Based on cultural anthropology field and
historical research in major republics of Eastern
Siberia—Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva)—this book
highlights Indigenous concerns about self-determination.
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer suggests that a fragile and
disorganized dynamic of nested sovereignties has developed within
Russia. Ecology activism has grown, given new
threats to the environment and accelerating climate
challenges, especially in the Arctic. Focus on strategically
chosen republics enables comparing and contrasting interethnic
relations, language politics, and the salience
of gender, demography, resource competition,
environmental degradation, and increased spirituality.
Republics vary in their neocolonial relationships to Moscow
authorities. Some local leaders, such as a politicized
shaman, use nostalgia for cultural achievements to galvanize
citizens. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, cultural and
political revitalization have been relatively more viable, although
still difficult, in areas where Siberians have their own
republics.Â
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