| For Everything a Season: A History of Alexanderkrone Zentralschule | View shopping basket |
| by T. D. Regehr with the assistance of J. I. Regehr |
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| A unique collaboration of a professional historian with an
eyewitness participant who brought along an unusual set of documents
from the Soviet Union in the 1920s. The Alexanderkrone school story
is especially important because it tells so much about the transition
period from the pre-revolutionary to post-revolutionary times. What
could continue unchanged midst the often chaotic, radical
transformation caused by the sovietization of an entire society? What
could not remain the same? How did Mennonites accommodate to the
pressures which came upon everyone and all facets of existence in the
new Soviet Union. In microcosm, the Alexanderkrone school experience
answers those questions. Includes maps and photos. Copyright 1988. | |
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| An Introduction to the Russian Mennonites | View shopping basket |
| by Wally Kroeker |
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paperback, 119 pages, $7.95
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| Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the
Russian steppes-in exchange for exemption from military service-
Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and the Netherlands made their
home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for
North and South Americas and Europe. Nearly all retain memories and
stories from that place-unbelievable prosperity for some; unspeakable
terror for many; church tensions; struggles between the landed and the
landless; exquisite clockmaking, storytelling, music-making, and food.
Kroeker tells it all with vibrancy-the overview and the memorable
details. Includes dozens of historic and contemporary photographs.
Copyright 2005. Good Books | |
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| Building on the Past: Mennonite Architecture, Landscape, and Settlements in Russia/Ukraine | View shopping basket |
| by Rudy P. Friesen |
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| A look at the Mennonites in Russia through their buildings. This
is a catalogue of Architecture from the 1780s through 1914. These places still tell the dramatic story of a people who emerged from modest agrarian beginnings, flowered into a proud and prosperous society, then scattered to the winds. It is a story that continues to unfold in new and surprising ways. This book expands on the scope and detail of it's popular predecessor, Into the Past: Buildings of the Mennonite Commonwealth. Copyright 2004 Raduga Publications | |
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| Hidden Worlds | View shopping basket |
| by Royden Loewen |
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paperback, 139 pages, $15.00
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| In the 1870's, nearly one-third of the Mennonite population in
Imperial Russia emigrated to the United States and Canada. These
Mennonite immigrants have sometimes been characterized as conservatives
who attempted to "transplant" their institutions and customs fro the
Old to the New World. According to this view, the immigrants of the
1870's migrated to preserve their old society, rather than to build new
ways of life in North America. Through a close examinations of a
variety of documents-diaries, letters to immigrant newspapers, and tax
rolls-historian Royden Loewen shows that the 1870's Mennonite
immigrants were in fact creative and innovative. In the "hidden
worlds" of their private lives, they were able to maintain some of the
most important aspects of their Mennonite identity-such as pacifism,
and community-run institutions-while also adapting their old social
structures to a new environment. Loewen argues that, in fact, private
social practices, hidden from public view, were the undergirdings of
these immigrants' successful integration into North American society. | |
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| The Silence Echoes: Memoirs of Trauma and Tears | View shopping basket |
| by Sarah Dyck |
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| Mennonites of Dutch/German ancestry began emigrating from Prussia and
settling in the Ukraine in 1789, following invitations and guarantees granted
by Catherine II of Russia. One hundred years later, the Mennonites in Russia
had prospered. They now numbered some 70,000 persons living in progressive
settlements, leading the way in farming and manufacturing.
The Mennonites who settled in Russia kept their language, their religion, and
their culture intact. But as the nineteenth century drew to a close, Mennonite
community identity was increasingly seen as a threat. There was first a drive
for russification under the Czars; there then was increasing suspicion of all
things German with the outbreak of the First World War; and finally the
Bolshevik Revolution brought Christianity and prosperity into question. The
Second World War and its brutal Stalinist aftermath succeeded in destroying
life in the Mennonite colonies.
The first person accounts translated here tell the stories of people who almost
miraculously survived successive waves of revolution, civil war,
assassination, economic and political purges, and arbitrary arrest and
banishment. The stories of these survivors are just now beginning to be
published, in both German and Russian.
Sarah Dyck's selection and skillful translation of these memoirs opens a rare
window through which English readers can begin to grasp the reality of life in
the Soviet empire for those judged to be enemies of the People. These stories
provide graphic and personal documentation of a land and a people in
turmoil. | |
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| Siberian Diary of Aron P. Toews | View shopping basket |
| by Olga Rempel |
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| The poignant, moving story of Aron Toews, a Russian Mennonite
minister exiled to Siberia. Translation of the German, Einer von
Vielen. English translation by Esther Klaassen Bergen. Edited by
Lawrence Klippenstein. Copyright 1984. | |
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| Remember Us: Letters from Stalin's Gulag (1930-37) | View shopping basket |
| by Ruth Derksen-Siemens |
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| Remember Us presents 131 letters from one family who were prisoners in the Gulag. The book contains actual letters from the imprisoned family (children and parents), as well as narrative, which guides the reader. Copyright 2008 Pandora Press | |
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| From Danzig to Russia | View shopping basket |
| by Peter Hildebrand, translated by Walter Toews with Adolf Ens |
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| This is an account of the first emigration of Mennonites from the
Danzig area to Russia in 1789. It was written in 1836 by Peter
Hildebrand. This is an edited version of Toews' 1994 translation.
Copyright 2000. | |
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| Up from the Rubble | View shopping basket |
| by Peter and Elfieda Dyck |
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| Here is the epic story that has charmed Mennonite audiences for many years.
Peter and Elfrieda Dyck share their World War II experiences of helping
Mennonite Refugees escape from wartorn Europe and find new homes in South
America and Canada. Many photos are included. "In this century no story out
of the Mennonite experience has captured the hearts and minds of all Mennonites and Amish groups as the story of the Berlin Exodus in 1947. The departure
from Berlin in the early morning hours of January 30 of 1,200 Mennonite
refugees from Russia is part of a larger epic of the movement of 12,000
uproooted Mennonites to new homes in Paraguay, Uruguay, and North America.
It brings to memory the biblical narrative of the mighty works of God in that
first Exodus."--Robert Kreider | |
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| Mennonite Foods and Folkways from South Russia, Vol. II | View shopping basket |
| by Norma Jost Voth |
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| Who were these people who originated in the Netherlands in the 1600s,
who later drained the swamps of the Vistula Delta (in the Danzig area of Poland)
and who eventually answered Catherine the Great's invitation to farm the
Ukraine? How did the villages they built on the steppes sustain their faith
and community life? A Russian Mennonite herself, Norma Jost Voth interviewed
persons whose lives have spanned from Chortitza in South Russia to Newton,
Kansas, from the Molotschna to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their memories of orchards
and gardens, Faspa and weddings, food preservation and wheat harvest fill this
volume. In addition, there are more than 100 recipes (different from those
in Volume I), as well as typical menus and menus for special occasions. | |
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| A Family Torn Apart | Details... |
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| Ambassador to His People | Details... |
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| And When They Shall Ask | Details... |
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| Between Worlds: Reflections of a Soviet-born Canadian Mennonite | Details... |
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| Beyond Those Mountains | Details... |
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| Chortitza Family Registers CD-ROM | Details... |
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| Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism | Details... |
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| Crossings of Promise | Details... |
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| Daydreams and Nightmares: Life on the Wintergruen Estate | Details... |
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| Days of Terror | Details... |
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| Design of My Journey: An Autobiography | Details... |
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| Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924 | Details... |
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| Events and People | Details... |
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| For His Sake | Details... |
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| From Kleefeld with Love | Details... |
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| Gathering at the Hearth: Stories Mennonites Tell | Details... |
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| Henry's Red Sea | Details... |
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| Hierschau: An Example of Russian Mennonite Life | Details... |
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| In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I | Details... |
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| Journey Into Freedom: One Family's Real-Life Drama | Details... |
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| Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin's Russia | Details... |
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| Liberty in Confinement | Details... |
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| Lifting the Veil: Mennonite Life in Russia Before the Revolution | Details... |
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| Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia: The Story of Abram Dück and His Colleagues, 1911-1917 | Details... |
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| Mennonite Estates in Imperial Russia | Details... |
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| Mennonite Foods and Folkways from South Russia, Vol. I | Details... |
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| Mennonite Martyrs: Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, Vol. 6 | Details... |
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| Mennonite Settlements in Crimea | Details... |
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| Mennonites in the Cities of Imperial Russia, Vol 1 | Details... |
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| Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada 1525 to 1980 | Details... |
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| Molotschna Historical Atlas | Details... |
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| Moving Beyond Secession: Defining Russian Mennonite Brethren Mission and Identity 1872-1922 | Details... |
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| Nester Makhno and the Eichenfeld Massacre: A Civil War Tragedy in a Ukrainian Mennonite Village | Details... |
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| None But Saints: The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia 1789-1889 | Details... |
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| Road to Freedom: Mennonites Escape the Land of Suffering | Details... |
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| Six Sugar Beets: Five Bitter Years | Details... |
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| Stories Our Mothers Told | Details... |
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| The Earth is Round | Details... |
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| The Mennonite Migrations (and the Old Colony) | Details... |
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| The Molotschna Settlement | Details... |
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| The Storekeeper's Daughter: A Memoir | Details... |
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| Whatever It Takes | Details... |