Inarctic mirrors a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the russian empire and the russian mind yuri slezkine offers the first in depth interpretation of this relationship no other book in any language links the history of a colonized non russian people to the full sweep of russian intellectual and cultural history enhancing his account with vintage prints and photographs . Title arctic mirrors russia and the small peoples of the north format paperback product dimensions 476 pages 925 x 613 x 045 in shipping dimensions 476 pages 925 x 613 x 045 in published 31 octobre 1996 publisher cornell university press language english. Arctic mirrors russia and the small peoples of the north cornell paperbacks author slezkine yuri october 1996 slezkine yuri books amazonca. In arctic mirrors a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the russian empire and the russian mind yuri slezkine offers the first in depth interpretation of this relationship no other book in any language links the history of a colonized non russian people to the full sweep of russian intellectual and cultural history enhancing his account with vintage prints and photographs . Whether described as brutes aliens or endangered indigenous populations the so called small peoples of the north have consistently remained a point of contrast for speculations on russian identity and a convenient testing ground for policies and images that grew out of these speculations in arctic mirrors a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the russian empire and the