Minority Report : : Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945 /

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

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....

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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