A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 / / David G. Rempel; Cornelia Rempel Carlson.

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• VerfasserIn: Rempel, David G.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Carlson, Cornelia Rempel,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Maps and Genealogical Figures --; Background of This Book --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Two Russian Mennonite Families --; Part One. Father's Ancestral Family: The Rempels --; 2. Cherkessy with Broken-Tipped Knives: The Rempel Clan --; 3. The First Three Generations of Rempels --; 4. A 'Better' Class of Rempels: The Maternal Lineage --; 5. Tribulations: My Paternal Grandparents --; 6. Father and His First Wife --; Part Two. Mother's Ancestral Families: The Höppners, Hildebrands, Kovenhovens, and Paulses --; 7. Unjust Charges: The Fate of Jacob Höppner --; 8. Mennonite Service and Supernatural Tales: The Hildebrands --; 9. Piety and Pain: Mother's Paternal Ancestors --; 10. A Burdened Life: Grandfather Heinrich Pauls --; 11. Equanimity: Grandmother Pauls, 1901-1917 --; Part Three. Boyhood --; 12. Life at Home --; 13. Father's Occupations --; 14. Apprehension Following the 1905 Revolution: Premonition of Chaos to Come --; 15. Class Conflicts within the Khortitsa Settlement --; 16. Growing Interest in Education --; Part Four. Fading Hopes: War and Revolution --; 17. The Outbreak of War --; 18. Harassment and the Confiscation of Property --; 19. Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old Guards --; Part Five. From Dream to Nightmare: Civil War and Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina) --; 20. The First Phase of the Civil War, January to March 1918 --; 21. Nominal Security under Foreign Occupation, April to November 1918 --; 22. A Short Respite: Two Celebrations --; 23. The Civil War Deepens, November 1918 to September 1919 --; 24. Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina): The Initial Stage, 21 September to 23 October 1919 --; 25. The Height of the Makhnovite Terror, 23 October to 23 December 1919 --; 26. Hostages --; 27. Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920 --; 28. More Desperate Years: A Sketch --; Epilogue --; Appendices --; Glossary --; Notes --; A Painter's Recollection of Khortitsa, 1910 --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442677210; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442677210
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David G. Rempel; Cornelia Rempel Carlson.

In this vivid and engaging study, David Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony - the Khortitsa Settlement - in 1789 to the country's cataclysmic civil war.Born in 1899 in the Mennonite village of Nieder Khortitsa on the Dnieper River, the author witnessed the upheaval of the next decades: the 1905 revolution, the quasi-stability wrought from Stolypin reforms, World War I and the threat of property expropriation and exile, the 1917 Revolution, and the Civil War during which he endured the full horrors of the Makhnovshchina - the terror of occupation of his village and home by the bandit horde led by Nestor Makhno - and the typhus epidemic left in their wake.Published posthumously, this book offers a penetrating view of one of Tsarist and early Soviet Russia's smallest, yet most dynamic, ethno-religious minorities.