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Author Neufeld, Jacob A., 1895-1960, author.

Title Path of thorns : Soviet Mennonite life under Communist and Nazi rule / Jacob A. Neufeld ; edited, with an introduction and analysis, by Harvey L. Dyck ; translated from the German by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 444 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies
Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part One Five Years in the Gulag, 1933-1939. 1 Arrest and Interrogation, 1933-1934 -- 2 Marking Time, 1934 -- 3 Railway Building in the Far East, 1934-1935 -- 4 Managing a Pig Farm in the European Far North, 1936-1939 -- 5 Coming Home, 1939.
Part Two Tiefenwege : Soviet Mennonite Life and Suffering, 1929-1949. Section One: New Directions and Shattering Experiments, 1928.1939 1 Stalin's Upheaval -- 2 A Day in the Gnadenfeld Kolkhoz "Karl Marx" -- 3 The Establishment of Collective Farms -- 4 Getting Rid of the "Kulaks" -- 5 Stalin's Impact on the Mennonite Character -- Section Two: World War II, the End of Bolshevik Rule, and the German Occupation, 1941. 6 Outbreak of World War II -- 7 The Last Days of Bolshevik Rule -- 8 German Occupation and Rule, October 1941-September 1943 -- Section Three: The Great Trek, 1943-1944 (based on personal diaries). 9 By Wagon Train across the Dnieper -- 10 West to the Polish Border -- 11 Refugee Life in Western Ukraine and the Warthegau (Poznania) -- Section Four: Germany's Collapse, 1944-1945. 12 Pell-Mell by Horse and Wagon to West Germany, 1945 -- 13 The End of Hitler's Reich -- Section Five: Allied Occupation and Emigration, 1945-1949. 14 Come Look, The Tommies, 1945 -- 15 Rekindled Hopes, 1945-1949.
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Subject Neufeld, Jacob A., 1895-1960.
Neufeld, Jacob A., 1895-1960.
German Occupation of Soviet Union (Soviet Union : 1941-1944)
World War (1939-1945)
Mennonites -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Mennonites.
Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Persecution -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Persecution.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Communism.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian.
Genre/Form Personal narratives -- Russian.
Subject Mennonites -- Canada -- Biography.
Canada.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Immigrants.
Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
Virgil (Ont.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Other Form: Print version: Neufeld, Jacob A., 1895-1960. Path of thorns. Neufeld ; edited, with an introduction and analysis, by Harvey L. Dyck ; translated from the German by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck 1442646098 (OCoLC)869521423
ISBN 9781442664401 (electronic book)
1442664401 (electronic book)
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