Minority Report: Mennonite identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789−1945 (англ.)

Introduction

PART ONE: OVERVIEWS: NEW APPROACHES TO MENNONITE HISTORY
1. “Land of Opportunity, Sites of Devastation”: Notes on the History of the Borozenko Daughter Colony
2. Afforestation as Performance Art: Johann Cornies’ Aesthetics of Civilization

PART TWO: IMPERIAL MENNONITE ISOLATIONISM REVISITED
3. Mennonite Schools and the Russian Empire: The Transformation of Church-State Relations in Education, 1789–1917
4. A Foreign Faith but of What Sort? The Mennonite Church and the Russian Empire, 1789–1917
5. Mennonite Entrepreneurs and Russian Nationalists in the Russian Empire, 1830–1917

PART THREE: MENNONITE IDENTITIES IN DIASPORA
6. Mennonite Identities in a New Land: Abraham A. Friesen and the Russian Mennonite Migration of the 1920s

PART FOUR: MENNONITE IDENTITIES IN THE SOVIET CAULDRON
7. Collectivizing the Mutter Ansiedlungen: The Role of Mennonites in Organizing Kolkhozy in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Districts in Ukraine in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s
8. Kulak, Christian, and German: Ukrainian Mennonite Identities in a Time of Famine, 1932–1935
9. Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites and the Trauma of the Second World War 287

Appendix: Dnipropetrovsk State University, Khortitsa ’99, and the Renaissance of Public (Mennonite) History in Ukraine
List of Contributors
Index