A Mennonite family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 /
In this vivid and engaging study, David Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony - the Khortitsa Settlement - in 178...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press
©2002.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442677210 |
| Summary: | In this vivid and engaging study, David Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony - the Khortitsa Settlement - in 1789 to the country's cataclysmic civil war. Born in 1899 in the Mennonite village of Nieder Khortitsa on the Dnieper River, the author witnessed the upheaval of the next decades: the 1905 revolution, the quasi-stability wrought from Stolypin reforms, World War I and the threat of property expropriation and exile, the 1917 Revolution, and the Civil War during which he endured the full horrors of the Makhnovshchina - the terror of occupation of his village and home by the bandit horde led by Nestor Makhno - and the typhus epidemic left in their wake. Published posthumously, this book offers a penetrating view of one of Tsarist and early Soviet Russia's smallest, yet most dynamic, ethno-religious minorities. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442677210 144267721X 1282022687 9781282022683 0802036392 9780802036391 9781442613188 1442613181 |