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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rempel, David G. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Carlson, Cornelia Rempel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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""
  • ""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, 1901â€?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 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
  • ""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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