Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).

Lukas Allemann ical in nature. Of course, these works cannot but include historical perspectives, and these too are essential sources of information for the present work. A sociologically oriented history, as practised in my work, "shares with other sciences such as cultural anthropology, ethnology or historical sociology the project of writing 'society histo­ ry'" .2 T he deliberate crossing of institutionalized disciplinary boundaries is also an important principle of my work. The fact remains that there are surprisingly few scholarly papers on the history of the Russian Sami .3 I n addition, many of those that exist focus on reindeer herding. The latter is indeed a 'trademark' of Sami culture, but was never as dominant as among the other reindeer herding peoples of Russia. In­ deed, in Soviet times less than half the Sami population was engaged in reindeer herding. In temporal terms there is a gap in research, in that the existing literature does not cover all eras equally thoroughly. The period up to the 1930s is particularly well studied in terms of ethnology by both pre-revolutionary and Soviet scholars .4 A small number of post-Soviet works have also examined closely the traditional culture of the Sami .5 T he Stalinist terror and the war have been examined only recently in a small number of works, but then in relatively great detail .6 The beginning of the de­ mocratization of the Soviet Union (perestroika) and the post-Soviet period are partic­ ularly well researched from the socio-anthropological viewpoint .7 However, the in­ tervening period, that is between the end of World War II and the beginning of pere­ stroika and glasnost, is poorly researched. In the existing literature it is treated largely as a 'by-product' of central topics or in less comprehensive publications. 8 Analysis of the interviews will help to close this gap. 2Gerbel/Sieder 1988, 191. 3 The research described here relates exclusively to the Sami in Russia. On the other hand, there is a wide range of literature in English, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian on the Sami living in the Nordic countries. 4 See, inter alia: Carnoluskij 1930; Haruzin 1890; Luk'jancenko 1971; Volkov 1996. Volkov 1996 is a manuscript dating from 1946, the author of which was a victim of the Stalinist terror. 5See in particular: Bol'sakova 2005. 6Cf.: Bol'sakova 2005, Stepanenko 2002. 7Cf.: Konstantinov 2005, 2006, 2007; Konstantinov/Vladimirova 2002, 2006; Vladimirova 2006. 8Cf.: Gucol/Vinogradova/Samorukova 2007. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 2