Minorities — Soviet Union.

  • Moldavia minority / produced by William Mandel

    Interview done in U.S.S.R. in September 1977, with Maria Vasilievna Marievich, a female anthropologist of a Turkic-speaking tribal minority the Gagauz, living in Soviet republic, Moldavia, bordering Romania. She is the assistant head of the anthropology sector of the Academy of Sciences of Moldavia, which at the time, was in the Republic of the Soviet…

  • A Soviet Muslim / interviewed by William Mandel.

    On being Muslim in the Soviet Union. Phone-ins.

  • Latvian women / William Mandel

    Interview with a 36-year old woman of white formerly-tribal Livonian minority within Latvia, which is in turn a republic of the Soviet Union. Born into an extremely poor family of fisherfolks “bread was a holiday dish” (they lived on potatoes and a little fish). She now has a PhD and studies relationships people-to-people among socialist…