Reassessing Soviet History and Imposed Constructs

Alice and Dennis Bartels, authors of "When the North Was Red: Aboriginal Education in Soviet Siberia", join the show to discuss their extensive ethnographic research of the Indigenous (also known as Northern) peoples of the Soviet Union.  We cover the experience of the various Northern peoples before, during, and after Soviet socialism and how it greatly differed from the genocidal experience of the Indigenous peoples of North America. The Bartels also give us insight into their own experience of living in the Soviet Union to conduct their research at the height of the Cold War. This is part one of a two part discussion. 

More information regarding what we discussed and articles written by the Bartels be found on the patreon posting of this episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69218802 Episode Credits