Soviet Ethnography

I will state right from the very beginning that the word "crisis" in the title of the article refers not only to those social conditions in which our science has found itself, but also to the discipline itself, including its most authoritative focal point: the N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. It would be an obvious simplification and a moral self-concession for the author to depict things in such a way that he would apply the most stringent criteria when assessing external conditions, especially the politico-ideological regimen of the past and the overall state of Soviet social sciences, while restricting himself to justificational claims together with reverential flattery about the "glorious traditions" of Soviet ethnographic science when characterizing himself, his colleagues, and the discipline as a whole

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