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A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923.
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 in 1789.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- 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
- 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
- 19 Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old Guards
- PART 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
- 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
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- Notes
- A Painter's Recollection of Khortitsa, 1910
- Index
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