Minority report : Mennonite identities in imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine reconsidered, 1789-1945 /
edited by Leonard G. Friesen.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations.
- Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature; Introduction; Part One: Overviews: New Approaches to Mennonite History; 1 â#x80;#x9C;Land of Opportunity, Sites of Devastationâ#x80;#x9D;: Notes on the History of the Borozenko Daughter Colony; 2 Afforestation as Performance Art: Johann Corniesâ#x80;#x99; Aesthetics of Civilization; Part Two: Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited; 3 Mennonite Schools and the Russian Empire: The Transformation of Church-State Relations in Education, 1789â#x80;#x93;1917 4â#x80;#x82;A Foreign Faith, but of What Sort? The Mennonite Church and the Russian Empire, 1789â#x80;#x93;19175â#x80;#x82;Mennonite Entrepreneurs and Russian Nationalists in the Russian Empire, 1830â#x80;#x93;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 8â#x80;#x82;Kulak, Christian, and German: Ukrainian Mennonite Identities in a Time of Famine, 1932â#x80;#x93;19359 Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites and the Trauma of the Second World War; Appendix; List of Contributors; Index
In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.
9781487514266
Mennonites--History.--Soviet Union Ukrainians--History.--Soviet Union