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        Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies

        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

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        Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine

        Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine

        by John R. Staples

        Price:

        $75.00

        ISBN: 9781487549169

        Pub Date: December 2023

        Drawing on the story of the leader of a small Mennonite community in southern Ukraine, this book explores how colonial subjects were shaped by and helped shape Russian imperial policy.

        Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

        Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

        Through Much Tribulation

        by Leonard G. Friesen

        Price:

        $42.95

        ISBN: 9781487524654

        Pub Date: October 2022

        This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.

        Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

        Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

        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:

        $122.00

        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.

        Minority Report

        Minority Report

        Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945

        Edited by Leonard G. Friesen

        Price:

        $87.00

        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.

        Red Quarter Moon

        Red Quarter Moon

        A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin

        by Anne Konrad

        Foreword by Hiroaki Kuromiya

        Price:

        $51.00

        ISBN: 9781442611399

        Pub Date: January 2012

        Red Quarter Moon is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR.

        Path of Thorns

        Path of Thorns

        Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule

        by Jacob J. Neufeld

        Edited by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck

        Price:

        $51.00

        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.

        A Mennonite in Russia

        A Mennonite in Russia

        The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

        Edited and translated by Harvey L. Dyck

        Price:

        $54.00

        ISBN: 9781442615410

        Pub Date: February 2013

        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.

        Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

        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

        Price:

        $111.00

        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.

        A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923

        A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923

        by David G. Rempel

        Edited by Cornelia Rempel Carlson

        Price:

        $50.00

        ISBN: 9781442613188

        Pub Date: September 2011

        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.

        Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe

        Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe

        Settling the Molochna Basin, 1784-1861

        by John R. Staples

        Price:

        $91.00

        ISBN: 9780802037244

        Pub Date: June 2003

        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 Peter J. Braun Russian Mennonite Archive

        The Peter J. Braun Russian Mennonite Archive

        A Research Guide

        by Harvey L. Dyck and Ingrid I. Epp

        Price:

        $274.00

        ISBN: 9781442682030

        Pub Date: April 1996

        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.

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