Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- 1 Approaches to Soviet Policy towards Northern and Far Eastern Peoples -- 2 Pre-revolutionary Conditions -- 3 Early Soviet Policy -- 4 Stalin and After -- 5 Northern Education during the 1980s -- 6 Perestroika, the Association of Northern Peoples, and the End of the USSR -- 7 Postscript: Some Comparisons between Soviet and Canadian Policy towards Aboriginal Peoples -- Appendix 1: Occupational Data on Families of FPNR Students -- Appendix 2: Benefits for Students at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, 1981-82 -- Appendix 3: Graduates of the Faculty of Peoples of Northern Regions, 1952-65 -- Appendix 4: Curricula and Required Work for FPNR Programs, 1981-82 -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.