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
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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.

Table of Contents

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