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Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage in Ukraine (1922-1927): Mennonite and Soviet DocumentsView
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by John B. Toews and Paul Toews, editors
  hardcover, 515 pages, $30.00
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The Union was the most important organization Mennonites in ukraine created in the 1920s to bugger themselves from the new Soviet system. These documents, written by Mennonites and Soviet officials, reveal the inner story of the Mennonite experience and the out-migration of the 1920s. The Soviet authored documents were recently discovered in ukrainian state archives and are published in English for the first time.

Copyright 2011 Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies

 
Ethno-Confession in the Soviet State: Mennonite in Siberia 1920-1989: An Annotated List of Archival DocumentsView
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by A. I. Savin, complier
  paperback, 218 pages, $25.00
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This listing of documents in Russian state archives was originally jointly published, in the Russian language by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies-Fresno. Savin, a historian with the Russian Academy, visited seven different archives in the search for documents on the Siberian Mennonite story. The abstracts of 1000 files,now available in the English language, reveal the broad contours of the Siberian Mennonite experience.

Copyright 2008 Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies.

 
Molotschna Historical AtlasView
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by Helmut Heubert
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A series of general maps, some never published before, of the area as a whole, and then of most of the individual village communities help to recreate the format of the land and larger regional interlock of Mennonite life and communal development of the settlement. Complete with explanatory text.

Copyright 2004 Kindred Productions.

 
Henry's Red SeaView
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by Barbara Smucker
  illustrated by Allan Eitzen
paper, 108 pages, $9.95
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Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia. This is a story of suspense-American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. 
And When They Shall AskView
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  Und Wenn Sie Fragen Werden: Ein Doku-Drama der Mennoniten-Erfahrungen in Russland
dvd (German), $24.95
Die Geschicht der Mennoniten in Russland von 1788 bis heute wird durch historisches Bildmaterial, nachgestellte Filmszenen sowie durch Interviews mit noch lebenden Zeitzeugen sehr eindrucksvoll und bewegend dargestellt. Viel Themen, die der Film aufwirft, sind in unserer heutigen Zeit genauso aktuell wie damals. Die Frage, wie christliche Werte und Glaubensuberzeugungen in einem sakularen Umfeld uberzeugend gelebt werden konnen, betrifft uns heute genauso, wie die Mennoniten im damaligen Zarenreich und spater in der Sowjetunion.
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This video is docu-drama about the Russian Mennonite sojourn in Russia from 1788 to the present. The film features re-enactments of historic evens, interviews with witnesses to these events, archival film footage, and culminates with scenes of Mennonite life in the former Soviet Union. Now with 45 minutes of bonus features and the Jake Sawatzky story, Bread from Heaven (English version only). 
History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation.View
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by Mary Raber and Peter F. Penner, editors
  paperback, 420 pages, $19.95
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A collection of writings inspired by the many ministries of Walter Sawatsky. Walter Sawatksy is an authority on the Christian church in the former Soviet Union and Europe, a prolific writer in the fields of church history and missiology, and professor of church history and mission at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

This collection of articles offers a glimpse of the variety of topics that arise around the conversation table of which Walter Sawatsky is part. He converses in the three languages used in this book and is comfortably at home in many countries and contexts in Europe, West and East, new and old. The authors write as representatives of educational institutions, scholarly associations, mission agencies, and churches, but also as friends and colleagues who have been encouraged and inspired by Walter Sawatsky. The collection is an expression of deep appreciation for a person who has contributed faithfully not only at countless conferences and public gatherings but also in many of Europe's hidden places.

Copyright 2011 Neufeld Verlag and Institute of Mennonite Studies, distributed by Herald Press

 
Crossings of PromiseView
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When the River Calls
Huge Alan Smith
paperback, 262 pages, $12.95
Six years have passed since the Hutterites arrived in South Dakota from the Russian steppes. In that time Hannah's relationship with Paul appears to have deepened-until he abandons the colony, disappearing somewhere up the Missouri River. The deathbed intuition of Paul's aunt pushes Hannah on a quest to find Paul and save him from an unknown danger. Hannah's journey takes her from Split Rock Colony to the farthest reaches of Americ. Will she find Paul in time and find the love she is looking for?

Sequel to When Lightning Strikes. Copyright 2004 Herald Press

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Calm Before the Storm
by Janice L. Dick
paperback, 368 pages, $14.95
South Russia, 1914. The world is war, and revolution threatens. Against this backdrop of fear and danger, three young people search for hope and love.

Mennonite Katarina Hildebrandt leads a tranquil life in the beauty of her family's Crimean estate. But change is coming, and Katarina's faith will be put to the test. Johann Sudermann arrives at the estate to teach, but finds he has much to learn. His new, true faith is about to turn his life upside-down. Meanwhile his friend Paul Gregorovich Tekanin searches for answers in the decadent city of St Petersburg. Paul soon discovers that the revolutionary movement demands his soul as well as his wit and strength.

Will these young people find the faith to weather the coming storm?

Ages youth to adult. Copyright 2002.

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The Cost of Passage
by Heather Tekavec
paperback, 112 pages, $12.95
Fourteen year old Anna knows her family must get out of Russia soon. Anna knows that their only hope of survival is to get to Canada where her friend, Johnny, and all her dreams await. Just when Anna's dreams seem completely unreachable, a drawer of moldy bread and an unusual friendship help her to understand trust and sacrifice.

Copyright 2004. Herald Press

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The books in this series are historical fiction for ages youth to adult. 
Lifting the Veil: Mennonite Life in Russia Before the RevolutionView
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by Jacob H. Janzen
  softcover, 128 pages, $25.00
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Jacob H. Janzen was born in 1878 in the village of Steinbach, Ukraine, He emerged as a leader in the Mennonite communities in his roles as teacher, pastor, and author. After surviving terrible hardships following the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, Janzen managed to emigrate to Canada with his family, settling in Waterloo, Ontario in 1924. There he served the Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church as pastor until his death in 1950.

Written originally in German and published in the Canadian Mennonite journal "Der Bote," Janzen's little book is part confession, part memoir, and part critique of the life he experienced in the Mennonite colonies in the Russia of his youth. Available now for the first time in English, Jacob H Janzen's thoughtful reflections "lift the veil" on a unique period of Mennonite history.

 
Mennonite Estates in Imperial RussiaView
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by Helmut Huebert
  paperback, 415 pages, $35.00
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Revised and Expanded edition. This book is an index of Mennonite estates in Russia, mainly between the years of 1813 to 1920. Though most of these estates have disappeared with only open fields in view now, this book provides a link to the past for those searching for family roots. All estates mentioned in any source for this time period and in all areas of Russia are mentioned even though some estates were dissolved and replaced by others. These estates were not only prominent in the Mennonite communities but also in the Russian communities participating in the local and regional government affairs. The book is complete with maps of various estates and regions, biographies of a number of Mennonite estate owners and lists of estates, estate owners, managers and teachers in both Imperial Russia and the Crimea.

Copyright 2008 Springfield Publishers

 
Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin's RussiaView
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by John B. Toews, editor
  234 pages, $45.95
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This book contains four stories of survival. The storytellers, two women and two men, believed in a loving God who cared about humankind. Thanks to Stalin's reign of terror they found themselves in many life-threatening circumstances where God appeared not to care. All four persons struggled with doubt, fear and despair. Like Job of old, they questioned God and like him they also affirmed faith. 
Ambassador to His PeopleDetails...
An Introduction to the Russian MennonitesDetails...
Daydreams and Nightmares: Life on the Wintergruen EstateDetails...
Days of TerrorDetails...
Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924Details...
For Everything a Season: A History of Alexanderkrone ZentralschuleDetails...
For His SakeDetails...
Gathering at the Hearth: Stories Mennonites TellDetails...
Hidden WorldsDetails...
In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War IDetails...
Liberty in ConfinementDetails...
Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia: The Story of Abram Dück and His Colleagues, 1911-1917Details...
Mennonite Foods and Folkways from South Russia, Vol. IIDetails...
Mennonite Martyrs: Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, Vol. 6Details...
Mennonite Settlements in CrimeaDetails...
Mennonites in the Cities of Imperial Russia, Vol 1Details...
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada 1525 to 1980Details...
Moving Beyond Secession: Defining Russian Mennonite Brethren Mission and Identity 1872-1922Details...
Remember Us: Letters from Stalin's Gulag (1930-37)Details...
Siberian Diary of Aron P. ToewsDetails...
The Silence Echoes: Memoirs of Trauma and TearsDetails...
Up from the RubbleDetails...
Whatever It TakesDetails...

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