Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine
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2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4916-9 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4916-9 (ISBN)
Drawing on the story of the leader of a small Mennonite community in southern Ukraine, this book explores how colonial subjects were shaped by and helped shape Russian imperial policy.
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era.
Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine.
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era.
Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine.
John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Land of Opportunity, 1804–1817
3. A Public Life, 1818–1824
4. Awakening, 1824–1828
5. Imposing Order, 1828–1834
6. Mennonites in the Era of Small Reforms, 1834–1838
7. “A Useful Man,” 1838–1842
8. The Warkentin Affair, 1841–1842
9. An Agent of the State, 1842–1847
10. Conclusion: “Something for the Future,” 1847–1848
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4916-4 / 1487549164 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4916-9 / 9781487549169 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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