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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-328) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 947.7/084
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442677210 0802036392
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- CT1225
- LCCN Item number
- R46 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxxvi, 356 p., [16] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Maps and Genealogical Figures 12
- Background of This Book 14
- Preface 20
- Introduction 26
- 1 Two Russian Mennonite Families 40
- PART ONE: Father's Ancestral Family: The Rempels 50
- 2 Cherkessy with Broken-Tipped Knives: The Rempel Clan 52
- 3 The First Three Generations of Rempels 55
- 4 A 'Better' Class of Rempels: The Maternal Lineage 62
- 5 Tribulations: My Paternal Grandparents 66
- 6 Father and His First Wife 73
- PART TWO: Mother's Ancestral Families: The Höppners, Hildebrands, Kovenhovens, and Paulses 80
- 7 Unjust Charges: The Fate of Jacob Höppner 82
- 8 Mennonite Service and Supernatural Tales: The Hildebrands 87
- 9 Piety and Pain: Mother's Paternal Ancestors 95
- 10 A Burdened Life: Grandfather Heinrich Pauls 102
- 11 Equanimity: Grandmother Pauls, 1901–1917 112
- PART THREE: Boyhood 120
- 12 Life at Home 122
- 13 Father's Occupations 139
- 14 Apprehension Following the 1905 Revolution: Premonition of Chaos to Come 149
- 15 Class Conflicts within the Khortitsa Settlement 156
- 16 Growing Interest in Education 188
- PART FOUR: Fading Hopes: War and Revolution 202
- 17 The Outbreak of War 204
- 18 Harassment and the Confiscation of Property 213
- 19 Revolution and Reform: Challenges to the Old Guards 222
- PART FIVE: From Dream to Nightmare: Civil War and Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina) 234
- 20 The First Phase of the Civil War, January to March 1918 236
- 21 Nominal Security under Foreign Occupation, April to November 1918 244
- 22 A Short Respite: Two Celebrations 253
- 23 The Civil War Deepens, November 1918 to September 1919 261
- 24 Makhnovite Terror (Makhnovshchina): The Initial Stage, 21 September to 23 October 1919 273
- 25 The Height of the Makhnovite Terror, 23 October to 23 December 1919 280
- 26 Hostages 286
- 27 Typhus: The Nightmare Legacy of Makhnovite Terror, December 1919 to March 1920 294
- 28 More Desperate Years: A Sketch 305
- Epilogue 312
- Appendix I: Terms of Catherine the Great's Recruiting Manifesto of 1785 316
- Appendix II: Mennonite Articles of Settlement in New Russia 317
- Appendix III: Special Privileges Granted to Höppner and Bartsch 319
- Appendix IV: Khortitsa Settlement Villages 320
- Appendix V: Nieder Khortitsa about 1917 321
- Appendix VI: Genealogy 325
- Glossary 350
- A 350
- B 350
- C 350
- D 350
- E 351
- F 351
- G 351
- H 351
- J 351
- K 352
- L 352
- M 352
- N 352
- O 352
- P 352
- S 353
- T 353
- U 353
- V 353
- W 353
- Z 354
- Notes 356
- A Painter's Recollection of Khortitsa, 1910 382
- Index 384
- A 384
- B 385
- C 386
- D 387
- E 388
- F 389
- G 390
- H 391
- I 392
- J 392
- K 393
- L 395
- M 396
- N 398
- O 399
- P 400
- Q 401
- R 401
- S 405
- T 407
- U 408
- V 408
- W 409
- Y 409
- Z 409
