Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits
ISBN:
9781442677210
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144267721X
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1282022687
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9781282022683
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index
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"Contents"; "List of Maps and Genealogical Figures"; "Background of This Book"; "Preface"; "Introduction"; "1 Two Russian Mennonite Families"; "PART ONE: Father's Ancestral Family: The Rempels"; "2 Cherkessy with Broken-Tipped Knives: The Rempel Clan"; "3 The First Three Generations of Rempels"; "4 A 'Better' Class of Rempels: The Maternal Lineage"; "5 Tribulations: My Paternal Grandparents"; "6 Father and His First Wife"; "PART TWO: Mother's Ancestral Families: The Höppners, Hildebrands, Kovenhovens, and Paulses"; "7 Unjust Charges: The Fate of Jacob Höppner"
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"8 Mennonite Service and Supernatural Tales: The Hildebrands""9 Piety and Pain: Mother's Paternal Ancestors"; "10 A Burdened Life: Grandfather Heinrich Pauls"; "11 Equanimity: Grandmother Pauls, 1901�1917"; "PART THREE: Boyhood"; "12 Life at Home"; "13 Father's Occupations"; "14 Apprehension Following the 1905 Revolution: Premonition of Chaos to Come"; "15 Class Conflicts within the Khortitsa Settlement"; "16 Growing Interest in Education"; "PART FOUR: Fading Hopes: War and Revolution"; "17 The Outbreak of War"; "18 Harassment and the Confiscation of Property"
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19 Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old GuardsPART FIVE: From Dream to Nightmare: Civil War and Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina) -- 20 The First Phase of the Civil War, January to March 1918 -- 21 Nominal Security under Foreign Occupation, April to November 1918 -- 22 A Short Respite: Two Celebrations -- 23 The Civil War Deepens, November 1918 to September 1919 -- 24 Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina): The Initial Stage, 21 September to 23 October 1919 -- 25 The Height of the Makhnovite Terror, 23 October to 23 December 1919 -- 26 Hostages
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"27 Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920""28 More Desperate Years: A Sketch"; "Epilogue"; "Appendix I: Terms of Catherine the Great's Recruiting Manifesto of 1785"; "Appendix II: Mennonite Articles of Settlement in New Russia"; "Appendix III: Special Privileges Granted to Höppner and Bartsch"; "Appendix IV: Khortitsa Settlement Villages"; "Appendix V: Nieder Khortitsa about 1917"; "Appendix VI: Genealogy"; "Glossary"; "A"; "B"; "C"; "D"; "E"; "F"; "G"; "H"; "J"; "K"; "L"; "M"; "N"; "O"; "P"; "S"
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TU -- V -- W -- Z -- Notes -- A Painter's Recollection of Khortitsa, 1910 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rempel, David G Mennonite family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2002
Language:
English
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