A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 /

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

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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 178...

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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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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

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