TY  - GEN
T1  - Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian colonialism in southern Ukraine
T2  - Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies.
A1  - Staples, John Roy, 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1381210279
AB  - "In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire's consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789-1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era. Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethno-cultural and ethno-religious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia's most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine."--
OP  - 338
CN  - DK5095.G47 S73 2024
SN  - 9781487549183
SN  - 1487549180
SN  - 9781487549176
SN  - 1487549172
SN  - 9781487549169
SN  - 1487549164
KW  - Cornies, Johann, : 1789-1848.
KW  - Cornies, Johann, : 1789-1848
KW  - Mennonites : Ukraine, Southern : History : 19th century.
KW  - Germans : Ukraine, Southern : History : 19th century.
KW  - Agricultural colonies : Ukraine, Southern : History : 19th century.
KW  - Russification : Ukraine, Southern : History : 19th century.
KW  - Ukraine, Southern : Ethnic relations : History : 19th century.
KW  - Ukraine : Colonization : History : 19th century.
KW  - Mennonites : Ukraine (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Allemands : Ukraine (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Colonies agricoles : Ukraine (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Russification : Ukraine (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Ukraine (Sud) : Relations interethniques : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine
KW  - Agricultural colonies
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Germans
KW  - Mennonites
KW  - Russification
KW  - Southern Ukraine
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Johann Cornies.
KW  - Mennonite settlement.
KW  - Mennonites.
KW  - Molochnaia.
KW  - Russian colonialism.
KW  - Russian imperialism.
KW  - Ukrainian steppe.
KW  - Warkentin Affair.
KW  - microhistory.
KW  - modernization.
KW  - pietism.
KW  - southern Ukraine.
KW  - wheat.
KW  - History
ER  -