| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
""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 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"" |
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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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""T""""U""; ""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rempel family.
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Rempel family. |
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Rempel family. |
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Rempel family. |
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Mennonites -- Ukraine -- Biography.
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Mennonites. |
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Ukraine. |
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Biographies.
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Mennonites -- Ukraine -- History.
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History. |
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Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Carlson, Cornelia Rempel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rempel, David G. Mennonite family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923. Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2003280002 |
| ISBN |
9781442677210 (electronic book) |
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144267721X (electronic book) |
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1282022687 |
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9781282022683 |
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0802036392 |
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9780802036391 |
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9781442613188 |
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1442613181 |
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