Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842...

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Harvey L. Dyck John R. Staples

Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842

Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, Ingrid I. Epp

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University of Toronto Press
27 February 2020

Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; History of religion

Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as ""model colonists"" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. The three volumes of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe document the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (17891848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna.

This volume covers the years between 1836 and 1842, beginning with the creation of the Mennonite Agricultural Society and ending with the Warkentin Affair, which pushed the Mennonite settlement to the precipice of potential religious and political disaster. Throughout this era, Johann Cornies negotiated a shifting political landscape while guiding his community through equally challenging economic times.

Cornies was well connected in the imperial government, and his papers offer a window not just into the world of the Molochna Mennonites, but also into the Tsarist state's relationship with the national minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhobors, Nogai Tatars, and Jews. This selection of his letters and reports, translated into English, is an invaluable resource for scholars of all aspects of life in Tsarist Ukraine and for those interested in Mennonite history.

Edited by: Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples
Edited and translated by: Ingrid I. Epp
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.160kg
ISBN: 9781487504496
ISBN 10: 1487504497
Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 27 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto. John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Ingrid I. Epp is the former librarian of University College at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842

"""Volume II of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe opens a fascinating window on the evolution of Mennonite social, religious, political, and economic life in southern Ukraine in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The extraordinary activity and personality of Johann Cornies comes even further into relief; his correspondence is an unparalleled source for the fine texture of daily economic life and the environmental history of the region."" --Heather Coleman, Department of History, University of Alberta "" Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe is a marvelous project. The letters and documents allow us to see firsthand the internal workings of one of tsarist Russia's most interesting and most important non-Russian communities, to explore the settlement and economic transformation of the steppe region, and to analyze the intricate relations between tsarist state agents and the heterogeneous subjects and settlers of the empire."" --Nicholas Breyfogle, Department of History, The Ohio State University"