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 Today Apollinarija Ivanovna lives alone in an apartment in Lovozero. She is still passionate about traditional Sami handicraft and sews reindeer fur garments. Until recently, she and a friend would still sometimes travel out with the cooperative's vezdehod to spend together a few weeks living and fishing in the tundra. 4.6 Brief comparison of the life stories The continuity of reindeer herding and the many years' working as a cumrabotnica with her husband, a job in which she could, despite many innovations, continue to live out Sami traditions, gave Apollinarija Ivanovna something to hold onto in life. This rhythm was a wholesome counterweight to the rupture caused by the reloca­ tion. It helped Apollinarija Ivanovna Golyh to an overall positive assessment of her life story, despite her - compared for example with Ms Jur'eva - cool relationship with the Soviet state and the then official ideology. Ms Golyh is thus to some extent mid-way between two extremes represented by Ms Jur'eva on one side and Ms Afanas'eva on the other. Ms Matrehina's and Ms Popova's retrospective judgements of the Soviet state and its policies toward the Sami resemble overall those of Ms Golyh. The large-scale displacement of the Sami between the 1930s and 1970s affected an estimated 70 to 80% of all Sami .108 Ms Golyh had the good fortune, through her career, to have a counterweight of stability and so come to terms with the trauma of the poorly prepared mass resettlements to Lovozero. Ms Jur'eva had no experience of forced relocation, so that her belief in the Soviet state was not called into question by such disappointments. As such she is in a minority - both among my interviewees, as well as among the entire Sami population of the Kola Peninsula. Ms Afanas'eva was hurt especially by the fate of her mother and brothers, who suffered particularly hard from the resettlement while she was studying in Leningrad. Her brothers were unable to get back on their feet professionally and socially after the relocation and came to terms only badly with this break in their lives. They belonged to a generation of persons uprooted by the state. 108Cf.: Bogdanov 2000. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 66