Resumen de Siberia: Myths and Realities

Norma G.O Pereira

• Janet Hartley's Siberia: A History of The People is simultaneously a survey of the history of Siberia and its peoples from the 16th century to the present and a corrective to pop­ular preconceptions. She succeeds on both counts for the most part, but more so for the first objective. Some of her conclusions with regard to the political history in par­ticular are subject to closer scrutiny and possible objection. Nevertheless, the book is an important contribution to Siberian scholarship in English