TY - JOUR
T1 - Izhorians
T2 - A disappearing ethnic group indigenous to the Leningrad region
AU - Fell, Elena
N1 - Funding Information:
Słowa kluczowe: Iżorowie; Ingrowie; ingryjscy Finowie; mniejszości bałtofińskie; historia Rosji; ZSRR; II wojna światowa Dr Elena Fell is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tomsk Polytechnic University, and Associate Editor of the journal Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. Her research interests focus on the study of broadly conceived communication, especially cross-cultural communication between Russia and the West. She has contributed to projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Russian Scientific Fund. She has authored research publications in Russian and English.
Funding Information:
Correspondence: Elena Fell, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, e-mail: elena. fell@ntlworld.com Support of the work: This research was carried out at Tomsk Polytechnic University within the framework of the Tomsk Polytechnic University Competitiveness Enhancement Program grant. Competing interests: The author declares that she has no competing interests.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - There is no body of research focusing specifically on Izhorians, a Finno-Ugrian minority group indigenous to the Leningrad region. Information about them is usually embedded in wider studies investigating Finnic minorities living at the intersection of Russia, Estonia and Finland. Consequently, it is fragmented, disjointed and marginalised, and available almost only in Russian, Estonian or Finnish. However, the most recent report on the state of the Izhorian language (which is part of a general study of Finnic minority languages in Russia) is available in English. Even though information about Izhorians lacks unity and cohesion, all researchers share the same concern, namely that Izhorians are disappearing as a distinct ethnic group. This concern manifests itself as a tendency to follow the dynamics of the Izhorian population, paying special attention to statistical data. Accordingly, this paper begins with a presentation of those data as a feature that connects all available research and proceeds to a commentary clarifying the reasons for the decline of this ethnic group. It also evaluates the current state of the Izhorian language. This review article presents a concise overview of selected research findings related to various issues concerning the study of Izhorians, including works by A. I. Kir'ianen, A. V. Labudin and A. A. Samodurov (2017); A. I. Kir'ianen (2016); N. Kuznetsova, E. Markus and M. Muslimov (2015); M. Muslimov (2005); A. P. Chush'ialova (2010); F. I. Rozhanskiǐ and E. B. Markus (2013); and V. I. Mirenkov (2000).
AB - There is no body of research focusing specifically on Izhorians, a Finno-Ugrian minority group indigenous to the Leningrad region. Information about them is usually embedded in wider studies investigating Finnic minorities living at the intersection of Russia, Estonia and Finland. Consequently, it is fragmented, disjointed and marginalised, and available almost only in Russian, Estonian or Finnish. However, the most recent report on the state of the Izhorian language (which is part of a general study of Finnic minority languages in Russia) is available in English. Even though information about Izhorians lacks unity and cohesion, all researchers share the same concern, namely that Izhorians are disappearing as a distinct ethnic group. This concern manifests itself as a tendency to follow the dynamics of the Izhorian population, paying special attention to statistical data. Accordingly, this paper begins with a presentation of those data as a feature that connects all available research and proceeds to a commentary clarifying the reasons for the decline of this ethnic group. It also evaluates the current state of the Izhorian language. This review article presents a concise overview of selected research findings related to various issues concerning the study of Izhorians, including works by A. I. Kir'ianen, A. V. Labudin and A. A. Samodurov (2017); A. I. Kir'ianen (2016); N. Kuznetsova, E. Markus and M. Muslimov (2015); M. Muslimov (2005); A. P. Chush'ialova (2010); F. I. Rozhanskiǐ and E. B. Markus (2013); and V. I. Mirenkov (2000).
KW - Finnic minorities
KW - Finno-Ugric peoples
KW - Ingrian Finns
KW - Ingrians
KW - Izhorians
KW - Russian history
KW - Second World War
KW - The USSR
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U2 - 10.11649/abs.2019.010
DO - 10.11649/abs.2019.010
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85079147111
VL - 43
SP - 206
EP - 228
JO - Acta Baltico-Slavica
JF - Acta Baltico-Slavica
SN - 0065-1044
ER -