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 ple' cannot be excluded. "1 E specially in a country like the Soviet Union, with its long tradition of personality cults and where heads of state stayed in power for very long periods, leader figures represented an important part of everyday life. When penetrating into the life worlds of a handful of 'ordinary citizens', as done in the present work, we cannot therefore limit ourselves to the isolated lives of these people. "In any life world the individual and the system are inextricably linked. For the life world orientation of historical science it follows that the repeatedly invoked contrast between micro- and macro-history does not exist in such a perspective. In the actor's eyes, micro- and macro-worlds are perceived simultaneously. "12 In short, both the diachronic context (what happened before and after the primary period of study?) and the synchronous context (what took place socially and politi­ cally in the Soviet Union during the period being related by the informants?) are of vital interest for the present study and must not be lost sight of. Overall, it can be stated that very few scholarly monographs and only a small number of papers have been published on the Sami of Russia, but that on the other hand a wealth of articles have appeared in the local press since the end of the Soviet Union. Including all these articles would be a near impossible venture. In my project I consciously rely as sources on verbal first person reports and much less on written documents from the press. Nonetheless these oral sources are in the present work constantly compared with the relatively concise corpus of available scientific litera­ ture on the Sami. In this respect, this work can be viewed as a quite comprehensive research report, which attempts to integrate as many viewpoints as possible. Here it has to be said that there are only very few publications that focus specifically on any one of the topics presented in this work. Most publications address a variety of top­ ics, but rarely in depth, offering only isolated items of information. 11 Ludtke 1989, 27. 12 Haumann 2006, 48 f. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 4