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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Maps ix
5. Introduction and Analysis 1
6. Part One Five Years in the Gulag, 1933–1939
7. 1 Arrest and Interrogation, 1933–1934 53
8. 2 Marking Time, 1934 81
9. 3 Railway Building in the Far East, 1934–1935 93
10. 4 Managing a Pig Farm in the European Far North, 1936–1939 107
11. 5 Coming Home, 1939 140
12. Part Two Tiefenwege: Soviet Mennonite Life and Suffering, 1929–1949
13. Section One: New Directions and Shattering Experiments, 1928–1939
14. 1 Stalin’s Upheaval 153
15. 2 A Day in the Gnadenfeld Kolkhoz “Karl Marx” 160
16. 3 The Establishment of Collective Farms 168
17. 4 Getting Rid of the “Kulaks” 178
18. 5 Stalin’s Impact on the Mennonite Character 184
19. Section Two: World War II, the End of Bolshevik Rule, and the German Occupation, 1941–1943
20. 6 Outbreak of World War II 195
21. 7 The Last Days of Bolshevik Rule 207
22. 8 German Occupation and Rule, October 1941–September 1943 218
23. Section Three: The Great Trek, 1943–1944 (based on personal diaries)
24. 9 By Wagon Train across the Dnieper 235
25. 10 West to the Polish Border 259
26. 11 Refugee Life in Western Ukraine and the Warthegau (Poznania) 288
27. Section Four: Germany’s Collapse, 1944–1945
28. 12 Pell-Mell by Horse and Wagon to West Germany, 1945 307
29. 13 The End of Hitler’s Reich 321
30. Section Five: Allied Occupation and Emigration, 1945–1949
31. 14 Come Look, The Tommies, 1945 333
32. 15 Rekindled Hopes, 1945–1949 345
33. Part Three A Memoir-Letter from Jacob A. Neufeld to His Wife, Lene (Thiessen) Neufeld, on the Occasion of Their 25th Wedding Anniversary 373
34. Notes 409
35. Index 425