Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction: The Small Peoples of the NorthPART I. SUBJECTS OF THE TSARCHAPTER 1. The Unbaptized

The Sovereign's Profit

The Sovereign's ForeignersCHAPTER 2. The Unenlightened

The State and the Savages

The State and the Tribute PayersCHAPTER 3. The Uncorrupted

High Culture and the Children of Nature

The Empire and the AliensPART II. SUBJECTS OF CONCERNCHAPTER 4. The Oppressed

Aliens as Neighbors and Tribute Payers as Debtors

The Russian Indians and the Populist IntellectualsCHAPTER 5. The Liberated

The Commissariat of Nationalities and the Tribes of the Northern Borderlands

The Committee of the North: The Committee

The Committee of the North: The NorthPART III. CONQUERORS OF BACKWARDNESSCHAPTER 6. The Conscious Collectivists

Class Struggles in a Classless Society

Hunting and Gathering under SocialismCHAPTER 7. The Cultural Revolutionaries

The War against Backwardness

The War against EthnographyCHAPTER 8. The Uncertain Proletarians

The Native Northerners as Industrial Laborers

The North without the Native Northerners

The Long Journey of the Small PeoplesPART IV. LAST AMONG EQUALSCHAPTER 9. The Socialist Nationalities

Socialist Realism in the Social Sciences

Fiction as HistoryCHAPTER 10. The Endangered Species

Planners' Problems and Scholars' Scruples

The Return of Dersu Uzala

Perestroika and the Numerically Small Peoples of the NorthConclusionBibliography

Index