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The Mordvins: Dilemmas of Mobilization in a Biethnic Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Valerii Iurchenkov
Valerii Iurchenkov*
Affiliation:
Institute of History and Sociology, Mordovian State University, Russia
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The Mordvins are the largest and the southernmost Finno-Ugrian nationality in Russia. Their titular autonomous unit, the Mordovian Republic, is located in the southern part of the Volga-Viatka economic region, on the border between the forest and forest-steppe zones. The ethnic composition of today's Mordovia is mixed. According to the 1989 census Russians constituted 60.8% of the population, Mordvins stood in second place with 32.5% and Tatars ranked third with 4.9%.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 85 - 95
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Copyright © 2001 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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