Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835

Edited by Harvey L. Dyck and John R. Staples

Edited and translated by Ingrid I. Epp

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Published: December 2015

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Series: Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies

Page Count: 632 Pages

Illustrations: 3 maps

Dimensions: 6.40 x 9.30

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ISBN: 9781442645066

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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 papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna.

Cornies was well connected in the imperial government, and his papers offer a window not just into the world of the Molochna Mennonites but also into the Tsarist state’s relationship with the national minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhbors, Nogai Tartars, and Jews. This selection of his letters and reports, translated into English, is an invaluable resource for scholars of all aspects of life in Tsarist Ukraine and for those interested in Mennonite history.

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Ingrid I. Epp is the former librarian of University College at the University of Toronto.

Preface

Translator’s Note

Introduction

Part One: Correspondence

Part Two: Studies and Reports

Appendix I: Geneology of Johann Cornies

Appendix II: List of Correspondents

Appendix III: Glossary

Appendix IV: Chronology

‘This book offers a fresh look into New Russia’s frontier communities.’
Aileen Friesen, Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol 35:2017

“Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe is a prodigious work of scholarship and a labour of love. The vast collection of Cornies’s personal papers offers unique insight into a social milieu about which we know little for this period and offers a rare, sustained, ‘plebeian’ voice from early imperial Russia.”
Heather Coleman, Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History, University of Alberta

“This volume will serve as an indispensable source for scholars of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine as well as the German diaspora of Eastern Europe. For historians who focus on provincial intellectual life and culture, it will provide a treasure trove of information for future studies.”
Colum Leckey, Piedmont Virginia Community College

Biography / Memoirs

Ukrainian Studies / Ukrainian History

History / Slavic History

Slavic Studies / Slavic History