Sponsored by the University of Toronto’s research program in Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies, this series encompasses original studies and guides to primary source material. Established in 1989 within the University’s Centre for Russian and East European Studies, this program promotes international collaboration among individuals and institutions engaged in Mennonite studies in the former Soviet Union.
General Editor: Harvey L. Dyc, Department of History, University of Toronto
Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836–1842
Edited by Harvey L. Dyck and John R. Staples
Edited and translated by Ingrid I. Epp
Price: $116.00
ISBN: 9781487504496
Pub Date: February 2020
This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.
Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945
Edited by Leonard G. Friesen
Price: $83.00
ISBN: 9781487501945
Pub Date: February 2018
In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
by Jacob J. Neufeld
Edited by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck
Price: $48.95
ISBN: 9781442614208
Pub Date: January 2014
Paths of Thorns is the story of Jacob Abramovich Neufeld (1895–1960), a prominent Soviet Mennonite leader and writer, as well as one of these Mennonites sent to the Gulag.
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
Price: $106.00
ISBN: 9781442645066
Pub Date: December 2015
Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Stepper documents the Mennonite experience in the southern Ukraine through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna.
Epp’s writings reveal a skilled and honest diarist of deep feelings, and tell a human story that no conventional historical account could hope to equal.
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.
In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.
The guide to this unique primary source material consists of a historical introduction, a detailed listing and description of the contents, a guide to the use of the microfilm (tables, keys, and a glossary), as well as illustrations and maps.
