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 The control of private lives in these rural areas was apparently not as strong as in the city. This is proved by the survival of the grandmother's icon collection, which has remained in family hands. The NKVD's misdeeds were aimed more at ethnic than at religious or, as men­ tioned earlier, class origin. The corresponding events on the Kola Peninsula have only recently found their way into print. Besides Bol'sakova's book, that of Stepanenko (2002) is devoted in particular to a description of these events. Using numerous sources (photos, oral and written testimonies), the book records the shooting of the men of the Motovskij settlement, the liquidation of the Tundra kolkhoz and the forced deportation of the Sami in 1940 from the area where the Germans marched in. Only in 2001 did the descendants of those shot receive official rehabilitation certifi­ cates .125O verall, during the years of Stalin's rule, 73 Sami and 33 Komi were arrested, of whom 37 and 18 respectively were shot dead. 126 Already during perestroika, Kiselev/Kiseleva (1987) - a work to be used today more as a source - mentions the NKVD repression only in the form of very indirect allusions: "И хотя после чистки рядов партии [...] численность тундровых партийных организаций несколько сократилась коммунисты, оставались ведущей и руководящей силой в осуществлении социалистических преобразований в тундре." / / "Although purges in the ranks of the Communist party [...] weakened its pres­ ence in the tundra, Communists retained their leadership in the socialistic trans­ formations of the tundra. "127 Kiselev/Kiseleva (1987) remains the most comprehensive historiographical presenta­ tion of the Russian Sami. In it the entire period between the Revolution and the Se­ 125Cf.: Stepanenko 2002. 126Cf.: Bogdanov 2000. 127Kiselev/Kiseleva 1987, 66. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 76