Galvanizing Nostalgia?Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival of Russia in its nominally federal form. Will Russia fall apart along the lines of its internal republics, as did the Soviet Union? Based on cultural anthropology field and historical research in major republics of Eastern SiberiaSakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva)this book highlights Indigenous concerns about self determination. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer suggests that a