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).

The Sami of the Kola Peninsula the teaching profession for the fact that her children no longer speak Sami. We have seen, however, that there were also other reasons, like the parents working in a ma­ jority Russian environment and their not particularly strong sense of tradition. For Ms Matrechina, the greatest scourge which the Sami took from the Russians is alcohol. Only from 1958 onwards was it a dominant problem of her environment, the year when she and her family was relocated to Gremiha, where the Russians were in the majority. For this reason too Ms Matrehina yearns back to Stalin's days, because the latter "had the conduct of [the people] under control." 201 M s Jur'eva has a similar opinion of the Stalinist era. Ms Afanas'eva has a different view on this, having witnessed her own relatives falling victim to repression. She is also extremely critical of the subsequent decades of the Soviet Union, having experienced first hand the continuation of state repres­ sion, even after Stalinism. Following the forced resettlement she had to look on as her brother, unable to find his place again in society, was sentenced repeatedly to prison and forced labour. Ms Afanas'eva tends, however, to effusive praise when talk­ ing of the achievements of Soviet education. Soviet educational policy did indeed achieve much on the Kola Peninsula, an area in which there were formerly few schools and almost a hundred percent of the indigenous population were illiterate. It would be inappropriate to follow Sarv (1996) and to speak only negatively of Soviet educational policy (1996). But it is significant that Ms Afanas'eva - herself a Russian and German teacher and thus a representative of this educational system - scarcely mentions the issue of the exclusion of the Sami language in the educational system and in the same breath highlights the achievement of the teachers in teaching the Russian language to the Sami children. Another important difference with Ms Jur'eva is that Ms Afanas'eva does not see the transition from a subsistence economy to a more productive form of economic life after collectivization and resettlement as a benefit, as it failed to raise her family's living standards. The subsistance economy had provided greater prosperity for her own family. 201 Matrehina interview, line 284. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 135