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 ever, remained in the tundra with the herds. In this way, the families were torn into three parts. [...] Not every mother [...] wanted to send her child to a boarding school. And this is the statistic: in 1989 20% die of natural causes, 40% die tragi­ cally: they drown or freeze to death in the tundra, die in in car accidents or while drunk, as many of them are chronic alcoholics. In the village [Lovozero, L.A.] visi­ ble wealth was created: single-family house s186 and cars, but that is something of a show for guests. [...] In fact, everything is quite different: [...] Constant reindeer meat and male society for three months at a time. Then two weeks off, and then back hundreds of kilometres, with no electricity, housing, television and above all with no human interaction ... But with a lot of heaviness of heart. "187 This article is particularly impressive when on realizes just how far its content clashes with the monograph by Kiselev/Kiseleva (1987) published just two years before. This is another indication that there was a lot more freedom of expression at that time at the centre (Moscow) than at the periphery (e.g. Murmansk), where the new ideas of perestroika and glasnost prevailed only gradually. The newspaper article pinpoints what is, in my opinion, one of the main sources of social problems, in addition to the resettlement in Lovozero. This is that the Soviet policy of the centralization of the Sami and the professionalization of reindeer herding had the effect of reducing herd­ ing from a way of life to a purely professional occupation, which meant that families were separated for most of the time. On the other hand, this is not to deny that the urban-type housing and the schools also represent a step forward. One has the im­ pression that, in the coverage of the situation since around 1989 until today, the pendulum has swung in the other direction: whereas previously only the progress was lauded, scholars have started since the end of the Soviet Union to report mainly the negative aspects. 186At a central location in Lovozero some amazingly spacious family houses were built in brick, which is extremely unusual for Soviet housing, and it is one one of these houses that Anna Jur'eva lives. In fact, most people live in Lovozero in ordinary Soviet apartment blocks from the Khrushchev era (hruscevki). 187Galenkin/Kovalenko 1989. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 124