Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Overviews: New Approaches to Mennonite History
7. 1. “Land of Opportunity, Sites of Devastation”: Notes on the History of the Borozenko Daughter Colony 25
8. 2. Afforestation as Performance Art: Johann Cornies’ Aesthetics of Civilization 61
9. Part Two: Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited
10. 3. Mennonite Schools and the Russian Empire: The Transformation of Church-State Relations in Education, 1789–1917 85
11. 4. A Foreign Faith but of What Sort? The Mennonite Church and the Russian Empire, 1789–1917 110
12. 5. Mennonite Entrepreneurs and Russian Nationalists in the Russian Empire, 1830–1917 142
13. Part Three: Mennonite Identities in Diaspora
14. 6. Mennonite Identities in a New Land: Abraham A. Friesen and the Russian Mennonite Migration of the 1920s 181
15. Part Four: Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron
16. 7. Collectivizing the Mutter Ansiedlungen: The Role of Mennonites in Organizing Kolkhozy in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Districts in Ukraine in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s 211
17. 8. Kulak, Christian, and German: Ukrainian Mennonite Identities in a Time of Famine, 1932–1935 260
18. 9. Caught between Two Poles: Ukrainian Mennonites and the Trauma of the Second World War 287
19. Appendix: Dnipropetrovsk State University, Khortitsa ’99, and the Renaissance of Public (Mennonite) History in Ukraine 319
20. Contributors 333
21. Index 335