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.

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.
Staples John R. :

John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Epp Ingrid I. :

Ingrid I. Epp is the former librarian of University College at the University of Toronto.

‘This book offers a fresh look into New Russia’s frontier communities.’

Colum Leckey, Piedmont Virginia Community College:

“This volume will serve as an indispensable source for scholars of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine as well as the German diaspora of Eastern Europe. For historians who focus on provincial intellectual life and culture, it will provide a treasure trove of information for future studies.”

Heather Coleman, Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History, University of Alberta:

“Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe is a prodigious work of scholarship and a labour of love. The vast collection of Cornies’s personal papers offers unique insight into a social milieu about which we know little for this period and offers a rare, sustained, ‘plebeian’ voice from early imperial Russia.”