The Native Races Of The Russian Empire - Softcover

Robert Gordon Latham

 
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Synopsis

The Native Races Of The Russian Empire by Robert Gordon Latham. This work surveys the ethnology of Russia's population, arguing that the empire's non-Russian populations cluster into three great stocks: Ugrian, Turk, and Sarmatian. Latham describes the Ugrian peoples (Laps, Finns, Esthonians, Samoyeds, Ostiaks, Voguls, etc.), the Turk stock (Kazan, Astrakhan, Crimea, Siberian groups, Kirghiz, Bashkirs, Nogays, etc.), and the Sarmatian stock (Slavonic and Lithuanian branches, including Poles, Bulgarians, Servians, Lithuanians, Letts). The book includes extensive ethnographic descriptions, language classifications, geographic distributions, and historical context, and is organized into chapters on stock boundaries, dialects, religion, and past migrations. It uses ethnographic maps and statistics of populations within the Russian Empire to illustrate how these three stocks shaped the ethnology of Russia in the mid-19th century.

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