{"product_id":"minority-report-mennonite-identities-in-imperial-russia-and-soviet-ukraine-reconsidered-1789-1945-hardback-9781487501945","title":"Minority Report; Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789-1945 (Hardback) 9781487501945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789-1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeonard G. Friesen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 February 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.3 x 3 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This work is a reasonably successful reexamination of Mennonite identity in late imperial and early soviet Ukraine...this collection makes significant use of regional and federal archival collections from Ukraine and Russia. All of the authors rightly ascribe significant agency to Mennonites as they engage with their neighbors and state. If Mennonites are sometimes perpetrators, victims, and refugees, they are also much more than these rather reductive categories in a volume that adds much nuance to this history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Emily B. Bara (The Russian Review) \u003cp\u003e\"The collection is a useful contribution to a rich historiography. It should inspire further researchers to explore neglected sources and, no less important, to incorporate the rich burgeoning scholarship in post-Soviet Russia.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University (\u003cem\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"This book is one of the first comprehensive studies on the subject; it unites experts from Canada, United States, Ukraine, and Russia and makes it possible to benefit from previously unresearched or unavailable materials and resources. Thus, this publication is unique in its content and in its contribution to the field of Mennonite studies, and it is a pleasure to read. It occupies a well-deserved place on the list of \u0026amp;#x2018;must-read\u0026amp;#x2019; books.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Vitaliy V. Proshak, University of Amsterdam (\u003cem\u003eEast\/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Len Friesen\u0026amp;#x2019;s own forthcoming history of Russian Mennonites, reaching into the twenty-first century, will inspire more relational ties for readers, including the still unknown corps of experts among Russian Germans in Germany.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Walter Sawatsky, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (\u003cem\u003eThe Mennonite Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"As a whole, \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced view of both how Mennonites were much more a part of their Russian and Ukrainian environment and how their own identities underwent transformation with increasing rapidity in the later nineteenth century and the tumultuous years of revolution, famine, Sovietization and war.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Hans Werner, University of Winnipeg (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Mennonite Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In \u003ci\u003eMinority Report, \u003c\/i\u003eLeonard G. Friesen and the volume\u0026amp;#x2019;s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume engages scholars from Ukraine, Russia, and North America, and includes translated and accessible contributions by scholars from the Ukrainian-German Institute of Dnipropetrovsk State University. \u003ci\u003eMinority Report \u003c\/i\u003eis divided into four sections: New Approaches to Mennonite History; Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited; Mennonite Identities in Diaspora; and Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron. An appendix is included which recounts for the first time the emergence of Mennonite public history in southern Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The volume\u0026amp;#x2019;s contributors reveal that far from being isolated from the larger society, Mennonites played an integral role in shaping the entire region. \u003ci\u003eMinority Report \u003c\/i\u003esuccessfully places Mennonite history within the recent historiographical insights offered by Ukrainian and Russian scholars and significantly enriches our understanding of minority relations in Soviet Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard G. Friesen, Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Overviews: New Approaches to Mennonite History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Svetlana Bobyleva, \"The future deprived of support, the past cruelly discredited...\" Notes on the History of the Borozenko Settlements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 John Staples, \"Johann Cornies\u0026amp;#x2019; Aethetics of Civilization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Irina Cherkazianova, The Mennonite School in the Russian Empire: Transformation of the Relations between the State and the Mennonite Communities on Matters of Education in the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e to the Beginning of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Oksana Beznosova, Church Life of the Mennonites in the Russian Empire through the Eyes of Tsarist Officials. 1789-1917\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Nataliya Venger, Mennonite Entrepreneurship as a Subject of Russian Nationalism in the Russian Empire, 1830-1917\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Mennonite Identities in Diaspora\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 John Toews, Mennonite Identities in a New Land: Abraham A. Friesen and the Russian Mennonite Migration of the 1920s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Colin Neufeldt, Collectivizing the Mutter Ansiedlungen: The Organization of Mennonite Kolkhozy in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Districts in Ukraine in the late 1920s and early 1930s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Alexander Beznosov, In The Grip of Famine: The Germans and Mennonites of Southern Ukraine 1932-1935\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Viktor K. Klets, Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites during World War Two\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard G Friesen, Appendix. Dnipropetrovsk National University, Khortitsa \u0026amp;#x2019;99, and the Renaissance of Public (Mennonite) History in Ukraine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595456639256,"sku":"9781487501945","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/minority-report-mennonite-identities-in-imperial-russia-and-soviet-ukraine-reconsidered-1789-1945-hardback-9781487501945","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}