Minority Report : : Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945 / / ed. by Leonard G. Friesen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• MitwirkendeR: Beznosov, Alexander,; Beznosova, Oksana,; Bobyleva, Svetlana,; Cherkazianova, Irina,; Friesen, Leonard G.,; Klets, Viktor K.,; Neufeldt, Colin P.,; Staples, John R.,; Toews, John B.,; Venger, Nataliya,
• HerausgeberIn: Friesen, Leonard G. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine. This volume engages scholars from Ukraine, Russia, and North America, and includes translated and accessible contributions by scholars from the Ukrainian-German Institute of Dnipropetrovsk State University. Minority Report is divided into four sections: New Approaches to Mennonite History; Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited; Mennonite Identities in Diaspora; and Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron. An appendix is included which recounts for the first time the emergence of Mennonite public history in southern Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The volume’s contributors reveal that far from being isolated from the larger society, Mennonites played an integral role in shaping the entire region. Minority Report successfully places Mennonite history within the recent historiographical insights offered by Ukrainian and Russian scholars and significantly enriches our understanding of minority relations in Soviet Ukraine.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature -- Introduction -- Part One: Overviews: New Approaches to Mennonite History -- 1. “Land of Opportunity, Sites of Devastation”: Notes on the History of the Borozenko Daughter Colony -- 2. Afforestation as Performance Art: Johann Cornies’ Aesthetics of Civilization -- Part Two: Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited -- 3. Mennonite Schools and the Russian Empire: The Transformation of Church-State Relations in Education, 1789–1917 -- 4. A Foreign Faith but of What Sort? The Mennonite Church and the Russian Empire, 1789–1917 -- 5. Mennonite Entrepreneurs and Russian Nationalists in the Russian Empire, 1830–1917 -- Part Three: Mennonite Identities in Diaspora -- 6. Mennonite Identities in a New Land: Abraham A. Friesen and the Russian Mennonite Migration of the 1920s -- Part Four: Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron -- 7. Collectivizing the Mutter Ansiedlungen: The Role of Mennonites in Organizing Kolkhozy in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Districts in Ukraine in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s -- 8. Kulak, Christian, and German: Ukrainian Mennonite Identities in a Time of Famine, 1932–1935 -- 9. Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites and the Trauma of the Second World War -- Appendix: Dnipropetrovsk State University, Khortitsa ’99, and the Renaissance of Public (Mennonite) History in Ukraine -- Contributors -- Index