Add to ORKGWithout a doubt, the Bolshevik Revolution altered the course of world history. Millions of lives were affected by the policies enacted by the communist leadership. German-speaking Mennonites living in Ukraine were one group that was particularly affected by Bolshevik policies, and more than 22,000 Mennonites would emigrate during the 1920s from the Soviet Union to Canada and other Western countries to escape persecution. Among those who fled the rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Ukrainian countryside were my paternal grandmother's parents, Henry Koop and Margaret Enns. This thesis will discuss this major wave of Mennonite immigration, focusing on how Mennonites were targeted for persecution because of their German heritage and their r...
Many books have been written on Mennonite history, but these deal largely with the religious aspect ...
This qualitative case study grounds theoretical notions of diaspora in personal accounts of Russian ...
Little scholarly research has been done on the function of Germanism among Mennonites who immigrated...
Without a doubt, the Bolshevik Revolution altered the course of world history. Millions of lives wer...
The story of Russian Mennonite conscientious objectors (hereafter COs) is probably not well-known. I...
What Russian Mennonite child has not heard the stories of the massive migration from Russia to the N...
By the early twenty-first century, Old Colony Mennonites constituted a diaspora across the Americas....
Serfdom in Russia was abolished in 1861, only 76 years after the first Mennonites were invited into ...
In the 1920s, conflict over schooling prompted the exodus of nearly 8000 Mennonites from the Canadia...
By the early twenty-first century, Old Colony Mennonites constituted a diaspora across the Americas....
A literary critique is presented wherein the author examines the novel “A Complicated Kindness,” by ...
The main part of this article is presented in two sections. The first considers the practices for cu...
The only claim that this thesis can make is that it is an introductory account of the Mennonites in ...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukr...
Hard Passage is an intelligent, innovative, and eloquently written family history. It recounts the l...
Many books have been written on Mennonite history, but these deal largely with the religious aspect ...
This qualitative case study grounds theoretical notions of diaspora in personal accounts of Russian ...
Little scholarly research has been done on the function of Germanism among Mennonites who immigrated...
Without a doubt, the Bolshevik Revolution altered the course of world history. Millions of lives wer...
The story of Russian Mennonite conscientious objectors (hereafter COs) is probably not well-known. I...
What Russian Mennonite child has not heard the stories of the massive migration from Russia to the N...
By the early twenty-first century, Old Colony Mennonites constituted a diaspora across the Americas....
Serfdom in Russia was abolished in 1861, only 76 years after the first Mennonites were invited into ...
In the 1920s, conflict over schooling prompted the exodus of nearly 8000 Mennonites from the Canadia...
By the early twenty-first century, Old Colony Mennonites constituted a diaspora across the Americas....
A literary critique is presented wherein the author examines the novel “A Complicated Kindness,” by ...
The main part of this article is presented in two sections. The first considers the practices for cu...
The only claim that this thesis can make is that it is an introductory account of the Mennonites in ...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukr...
Hard Passage is an intelligent, innovative, and eloquently written family history. It recounts the l...
Many books have been written on Mennonite history, but these deal largely with the religious aspect ...
This qualitative case study grounds theoretical notions of diaspora in personal accounts of Russian ...
Little scholarly research has been done on the function of Germanism among Mennonites who immigrated...