| Description |
1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 27 Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920 -- 28 More Desperate Years: A Sketch -- Epilogue |
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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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 in 1789 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rempel family
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Mennonites -- Ukraine -- History
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Mennonites.
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Ukraine.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlson, Cornelia Rempel
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| ISBN |
9781442677210 |
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144267721X |
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