A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 / / 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 178...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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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