Path of Thorns : : Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule /

Path of Thorns : : Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule / / Jacob J. Neufeld; ed. by Sarah Dyck, Harvey L. Dyck.

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Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the Sec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2014
VerfasserIn:
Neufeld, Jacob J.,
MitwirkendeR:
Dyck, Harvey L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Dyck, Harvey L.,
Dyck, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.) :; 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Introduction and Analysis
  • Part One Five Years in the Gulag, 1933–1939
  • 1 Arrest and Interrogation, 1933–1934
  • 2 Marking Time, 1934
  • 3 Railway Building in the Far East, 1934–1935
  • 4 Managing a Pig Farm in the European Far North, 1936–1939
  • 5 Coming Home, 1939
  • Part Two Tiefenwege: Soviet Mennonite Life and Suffering, 1929–1949
  • Section One: New Directions and Shattering Experiments, 1928–1939
  • 1 Stalin’s Upheaval
  • 2 A Day in the Gnadenfeld Kolkhoz “Karl Marx”
  • 3 The Establishment of Collective Farms
  • 4 Getting Rid of the “Kulaks”
  • 5 Stalin’s Impact on the Mennonite Character
  • Section Two: World War II, the End of Bolshevik Rule, and the German Occupation, 1941–1943
  • 6 Outbreak of World War II
  • 7 The Last Days of Bolshevik Rule
  • 8 German Occupation and Rule, October 1941–September 1943
  • Section Three: The Great Trek, 1943–1944 (based on personal diaries)
  • 9 By Wagon Train across the Dnieper
  • 10 West to the Polish Border
  • 11 Refugee Life in Western Ukraine and the Warthegau (Poznania)
  • Section Four: Germany’s Collapse, 1944–1945
  • 12 Pell-Mell by Horse and Wagon to West Germany, 1945
  • 13 The End of Hitler’s Reich
  • Section Five: Allied Occupation and Emigration, 1945–1949
  • 14 Come Look, The Tommies, 1945
  • 15 Rekindled Hopes, 1945–1949
  • Part Three A Memoir-Letter from Jacob A. Neufeld to His Wife, Lene (Thiessen) Neufeld, on the Occasion of Their 25th Wedding Anniversary
  • Notes
  • Index

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