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  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836–1842

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. The three volumes of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe document the Tsarist Mennonite ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series Book 1 - Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “model colonists” to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    The Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Vol. 3: 1843–1848

    Edited by Harvey Dyck, Ingrid Epp, John R. Staples ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochnaia.The third and final volume of Cornies’s papers, this ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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  • The Bad and Downright Ugly of the German-Russian Volga Colonies

    by D. Philipp Kaiser ...
    Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The First Chapter covers their emigration to the Volga Colonies. The Second Chapter covers the Shock and Disappointment, Death Rate, Wild Weather, Sickness, and Food Shortages that they endured. Chapter 3 ... Read more

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  • Wood

    A History

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  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
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    The Ethnic German Genocide in History and Memory 1944-1948

    by Ali Botein-Furrevig, Ph.D. ...
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    The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

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    In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community life in Imperial Russia during a period of troubled change. Epp’s writings reveal a skilled ... Read more

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