Leonard G. Friesen is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University.

"An ambitious study of the Mennonites, stretching from the foundation of Anabaptism to the end of the Soviet Union … Friesen offers a compelling and coherent survey of the history of Mennonites in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, providing a useful guide to the questions answered by current historiography and the holes in scholarship yet to be filled." - Aileen Friesen, University of Winnipeg (The Russian Review) "An expansive history of Mennonite communities from their initial settlements in imperial Russia to their near universal emigration in the waning days of the Soviet Union … The history that emerges from Friesen’s narrative is one of a coherent, but complicated Mennonite identity that is adaptive and layered in response to massive internal and external processes of transformation and rupture." - Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (Slavic Review)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and NomenclatureIntroductionPart I: Mennonite Origins1. Foundations: An Ancient Faith, Swiss Reformation, and Anabaptist Renewal2. Melchoir, Münster, and Menno: From Early Dutch Anabaptists to Mennonites3. A Faith Community on the Move: Mennonites, Poland, and Prussia, 1536 to 1800Part II: Mennonites in Imperial Russia4. A New Homeland in New Russia: Mennonite Settlement in the Russian Empire, 1789–18305. Pietistic Progressivism: Johann Cornies and the Transformation of Russian Mennonitism, 1800–18486. A Community in Crisis: A Divided Faith, the Revolt of the Landless, and Threatened Military Service, 1860–18747. From Crisis to Consolidation: The Flourishing of Russian Mennonitism, 1865–18838. Glory Days: The Apogee of Russian Mennonitism, 1883–19049. Confession or Sect? German or German-Speaking? Mennonite Identity Politics on the Edge of the Abyss, 1881–1917Part III: Mennonites in the Soviet Era10. After Eichenfeld: Soviet-Era Mennonites between Reconstruction and Emigration, 1917–192711. When God Leads You into the Wilderness: Mennonites in the Stalinist Crucible, 1927–193412. The Road to Rochegda: Soviet Terror, Nazi Occupation, and Stalinist Repatriation, 1934–195313. Detour to Dzhetisai: The Soviet Mennonite Renaissance in Stalin’s Shadow, 1953–199114. Coda: Zaporozhe 1989: One Story Ends and Another BeginsBibliographyIndex

Leonard G. Friesen is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University.

"An ambitious study of the Mennonites, stretching from the foundation of Anabaptism to the end of the Soviet Union … Friesen offers a compelling and coherent survey of the history of Mennonites in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, providing a useful guide to the questions answered by current historiography and the holes in scholarship yet to be filled." - Aileen Friesen, University of Winnipeg (The Russian Review) "An expansive history of Mennonite communities from their initial settlements in imperial Russia to their near universal emigration in the waning days of the Soviet Union … The history that emerges from Friesen’s narrative is one of a coherent, but complicated Mennonite identity that is adaptive and layered in response to massive internal and external processes of transformation and rupture." - Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (Slavic Review)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and NomenclatureIntroductionPart I: Mennonite Origins1. Foundations: An Ancient Faith, Swiss Reformation, and Anabaptist Renewal2. Melchoir, Münster, and Menno: From Early Dutch Anabaptists to Mennonites3. A Faith Community on the Move: Mennonites, Poland, and Prussia, 1536 to 1800Part II: Mennonites in Imperial Russia4. A New Homeland in New Russia: Mennonite Settlement in the Russian Empire, 1789–18305. Pietistic Progressivism: Johann Cornies and the Transformation of Russian Mennonitism, 1800–18486. A Community in Crisis: A Divided Faith, the Revolt of the Landless, and Threatened Military Service, 1860–18747. From Crisis to Consolidation: The Flourishing of Russian Mennonitism, 1865–18838. Glory Days: The Apogee of Russian Mennonitism, 1883–19049. Confession or Sect? German or German-Speaking? Mennonite Identity Politics on the Edge of the Abyss, 1881–1917Part III: Mennonites in the Soviet Era10. After Eichenfeld: Soviet-Era Mennonites between Reconstruction and Emigration, 1917–192711. When God Leads You into the Wilderness: Mennonites in the Stalinist Crucible, 1927–193412. The Road to Rochegda: Soviet Terror, Nazi Occupation, and Stalinist Repatriation, 1934–195313. Detour to Dzhetisai: The Soviet Mennonite Renaissance in Stalin’s Shadow, 1953–199114. Coda: Zaporozhe 1989: One Story Ends and Another BeginsBibliographyIndex

Leonard G. Friesen is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University.

"An ambitious study of the Mennonites, stretching from the foundation of Anabaptism to the end of the Soviet Union … Friesen offers a compelling and coherent survey of the history of Mennonites in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, providing a useful guide to the questions answered by current historiography and the holes in scholarship yet to be filled." - Aileen Friesen, University of Winnipeg (The Russian Review) "An expansive history of Mennonite communities from their initial settlements in imperial Russia to their near universal emigration in the waning days of the Soviet Union … The history that emerges from Friesen’s narrative is one of a coherent, but complicated Mennonite identity that is adaptive and layered in response to massive internal and external processes of transformation and rupture." - Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University (Slavic Review)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and NomenclatureIntroductionPart I: Mennonite Origins1. Foundations: An Ancient Faith, Swiss Reformation, and Anabaptist Renewal2. Melchoir, Münster, and Menno: From Early Dutch Anabaptists to Mennonites3. A Faith Community on the Move: Mennonites, Poland, and Prussia, 1536 to 1800Part II: Mennonites in Imperial Russia4. A New Homeland in New Russia: Mennonite Settlement in the Russian Empire, 1789–18305. Pietistic Progressivism: Johann Cornies and the Transformation of Russian Mennonitism, 1800–18486. A Community in Crisis: A Divided Faith, the Revolt of the Landless, and Threatened Military Service, 1860–18747. From Crisis to Consolidation: The Flourishing of Russian Mennonitism, 1865–18838. Glory Days: The Apogee of Russian Mennonitism, 1883–19049. Confession or Sect? German or German-Speaking? Mennonite Identity Politics on the Edge of the Abyss, 1881–1917Part III: Mennonites in the Soviet Era10. After Eichenfeld: Soviet-Era Mennonites between Reconstruction and Emigration, 1917–192711. When God Leads You into the Wilderness: Mennonites in the Stalinist Crucible, 1927–193412. The Road to Rochegda: Soviet Terror, Nazi Occupation, and Stalinist Repatriation, 1934–195313. Detour to Dzhetisai: The Soviet Mennonite Renaissance in Stalin’s Shadow, 1953–199114. Coda: Zaporozhe 1989: One Story Ends and Another BeginsBibliographyIndex