Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
Leonard G. Friesen, Introduction 1
Part I Overviews: New Approaches to Mennonite History
1 Svetlana Bobyleva, “The future deprived of support, the past cruelly discredited...” Notes on the History of the Borozenko Settlements
2 John Staples, “Johann Cornies’ Aethetics of Civilization
Part II: Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited
3 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 19th to the Beginning of the 20th Century
4 Oksana Beznosova, Church Life of the Mennonites in the Russian Empire through the Eyes of Tsarist Officials. 1789-1917
5 Nataliya Venger, Mennonite Entrepreneurship as a Subject of Russian Nationalism in the Russian Empire, 1830-1917
Part III: Mennonite Identities in Diaspora
6 John Toews, Mennonite Identities in a New Land: Abraham A. Friesen and the Russian Mennonite Migration of the 1920s
Part IV: Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron
7 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
8 Alexander Beznosov, In The Grip of Famine: The Germans and Mennonites of Southern Ukraine 1932-1935
9 Viktor K. Klets, Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites during World War Two
Leonard G Friesen, Appendix. Dnipropetrovsk National University, Khortitsa ’99, and the Renaissance of Public (Mennonite) History in Ukraine
List of Contributors
Index