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An edition of In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I (2006)

In Defense of Privilege

Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I

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The transition from being a severely persecuted religious minority in the Reformation era to becoming a privileged ethnic minority in the 19th-century Russian empire makes the Dutch-Polish-Russian Mennonite story a very intriguing one. Yet the privileges granted these Mennonites by Russia in 1800─permanent exemption from military service, freedom of religion, self-government, and control of their own schools─came under attack by imperial authorities with the government's decision to implement russification policies in the 1860s. This book documents how the Mennonites fought back, resisting the government's attempt to assimilate and to restrict their religious freedoms.

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Kindred Productions
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English
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543

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Subjects
Mennonites, Mennonite Brethren, History, Russian revolution, First World War, Church and state, Histoire, Église et État
Places
Russia, Soviet Union
Times
1800-1920

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Table of Contents

Preface. Page vii
Acknowledgments. Page xii
Archival Collections and Abbreviations. Page xvi
Part I: Prologue to Conflict: History, Historians, and the Recovery of Heritage.
1. Introduction: A Russian Mennonite Parable. Page 3 2. In Search of Authors. Page 17 3. No Longer a Child. Page 29 4. Through the Eyes of a Stranger. Page 51
Part II: Religious Minorities and the Orthodox State: Mennonites and the Politics of Religion after the April/October 1905 Manifesto.
5. "Nowhere do Heterodox Religions Enjoy so Perfect a Liberty as in Russia". Page 89 6. "Raduga," the Sign of God's New Covenant with Russia. Page 123 7. Church and State against the Covenant: the Investigation of "Raduga". Page 141 8. "The Godless Promise not to make Propaganda for the Mennonite Faith". Page 169
Part III: Ethnic Minorities and the War: Mennonite Isolation, Opposition to Russification, and the Coming of Land Liquidation.
9. "Do you not know that every German in Russia is a Spy?". Page 191 10. "All this, with one Stroke of the Pen, will belong to Us". Page 211 11. "We Hate and Loathe this People". Page 251 12. "A Nation State will simply not tolerate Ethnic Minorities". Page 259
Part IV: The War, its Aftermath, and the Russian Mennonite Search for Identity.
13. War and Ethnic Identity: "A Process of Clarification". Page 271 14. The Voelkein and the Volk: Repatriation, Emigration, and a Shifting National Identity. Page 303 15. Those Who Ignore History. Page 327 Epilogue: Who are the (Russian) Mennonites?. Page 345 Endnotes. Page 373 Bibliography. Page 493 Index. Page 515

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Hillsboro, KS, USA
Series
Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, No. 16
Copyright Date
2006

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Dewey Decimal Class
947.0088/2897
Library of Congress
BX8119.R8 F74 2006

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Paperback
Pagination
xvii, 520p.
Number of pages
543
Dimensions
9.0 x 5.8 x 1.0 inches

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OL19823548M
Internet Archive
InDefenseOfPrivilegeOCRopt
ISBN 10
189479107X
LCCN
2006373337
OCLC/WorldCat
62181387
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2926286

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