A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable
Author(s): David G. Rempel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781442613188
Edition: 1st Edition
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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.
