When new discourses appear, they can cause a certain pressure to search for new meaning of past actions and therefore even change recollection. During a period of discursive transition, these processes of memory evolution can cause serious social rifts. These insights from oral history theories are applied in this paper to the Sámi people in Russia, who all too often are seen by outsiders as a homogeneous community. I seek to correct this distorted image by analyzing the several interconnected rifts crisscrossing the Russian Sámi society. The following social fault lines are identified: the generational, the gender, the siyt, and the Lovozero- and-the-rest rifts, as well as a rift of worldviews, which I describe through two conceptual poles called “activists” and “sovkhoists.” Thus, the article contributes to raising awareness about the potentially differing interests of the individuals who constitute what is usually called the Russian Sámi “community” and increasing the critical distance of outsiders towards generalizing claims about “the” Russian Sámi.

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昨天的回忆，今天的话语：俄国萨米人为建设有意义的过去而奋斗

当出现新的话语时，它们可能会带来一定的压力，以寻找过去行为的新含义，从而甚至改变回忆。在话语过渡期间，这些记忆演变过程可能导致严重的社会分裂。这些来自口述历史理论的见解在本文中适用于俄罗斯的萨米人，他们经常被外界视为一个同质的社区。我试图通过分析穿越俄罗斯萨米社会的几条相互联系的裂谷来纠正这种扭曲的形象。确定了以下社会断层线：世代，性别，同业，左翼零乱和休息裂痕，以及世界观的裂痕，我通过两个概念性的极点来描述，即“活动家”和“自私主义者” 。” 从而，