Monografiya posvyashchena sistemnomu izucheniyu fenomena poyavleniya i funktsionirovaniya assotsiatsiy korennykh malochislennykh narodov Severa zapadnosibirskogo regiona v kontse 20 veka. V rabote analiziruyutsya osnovnye problemy razvitiya dannykh ob"edineniy v 1989 - 2002 godakh na primere assotsiatsiy Kolta kup (ob"edinyaet sel'kupov, khanty, chulymskikh tyurkov, prozhivayushchikh na territorii Tomskoy oblasti), Spasenie Yugry - assotsiatsiya khanty, mansi i nentsev Khanty-Mansiyskogo avtonomnogo okruga i Assotsiatsii shorskogo naroda (Kemerovskaya oblast'). Monografiya issleduet politicheskie platformy, organizatsionnyy opyt assotsiatsiy; vyyavlyaet prichiny poyavleniya, etapy razvitiya (ot etnicheskoy mobilizatsii do professionalizatsii) i sposoby reprezentatsii dannykh dvizheniy. V rabote opredelena stepen' vliyaniya assotsiatsiy korennykh malochislennykh narodov na etnopoliticheskuyu zhizn' Zapadnoy Sibiri, razrabotany prakticheskie rekomendatsii dlya optimizatsii mezhnatsional'nykh otnosheniy v Zapadnoy Sibiri.