Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian colonialism in southern Ukraine /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/jj.8501583 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Land of Opportunity, 1804-1817
- 3 A Public Life, 1818-1824
- 4 Awakening, 1824-1828
- 5 Imposing Order, 1828-1834
- 6 Mennonites and the Era of Small Reforms, 1834-1838
- 7 "A Useful Man," 1838-1842
- 8 The Warkentin Affair, 1841-1842
- 9 An Agent of the State, 1842-1847
- 10 Conclusion: "Something for the Future,": 1847-1848