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The Mennonites in the Civil War (1918–1920s): Survival Practices of an Ethno-Confessional Group

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2022
Introduction. The article examines the survival practices of the Mennonites during the Civil War (based on the materials of the European part of the Russian state). Methods and materials.
Tatjana Nazarova, Olga Redkinа
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California Mennonites [PDF]

open access: yesChoice Reviews Online, 2015
How did California Mennonites confront the challenges and promises of modernity?Books about Mennonites have centered primarily on the East Coast and the Midwest, where the majority of Mennonite communities in the United States are located. But these narratives neglect the unique history of the multitude of Mennonites living on the West Coast.
Froese, Brian
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Forest Teams as an Alternative Service of the Mennonites in the Russian Empire Until 1914

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019
Introduction. In the Russian Empire, the Mennonites, like German colonists, had numerous privileges, including they were not drafted for military service. This privilege was abolished after the Edict of 1874 was issued.
Ol’ga V. Erokhina
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Fancy Schools for Fancy People: Risks and Rewards in Fieldwork Research Among the Low German Mennonites of Canada and Mexico

open access: yesReligions, 2019
In the 1920s, conflict over schooling prompted the exodus of nearly 8000 Mennonites from the Canadian prairie provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to Mexico and Paraguay; this is the largest voluntary exodus of a single people group in Canadian history.
Robyn Sneath
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Pathogenic Variants in Mennonites From Southern Brazil: Implications for Preventive Measures in Public Health. [PDF]

open access: yesClin Genet
In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Mayer de Lima LB   +8 more
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Russia Germans in the Turkestan Governorate-General: resettlement and economic activity (the last third of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023
The paper is concerned with the history of the resettlement of Germans to the Turkestan Governorate-General in the last third of the 19th — beginning of the 20th c. This territory was actively developing after the accession to the Russian Empire.
Erokhina O.V., Shaidurov V.N.
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Изменение мировоззрения российских меннонитов и разрушение их сообщества

open access: yesСучасні дослідження з німецької історії, 2021
The article raises the problems of the Mennonite community's reflection on the reforms in Russian Empire as well as the modernization of social, political and economic environment in 1861–1914, during the First World War, the recurring power changes and
Елена Евгеньевна Ходченко
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Гуманитарная экспедиция Рейна Виллинка в Молочанский меннонитский округ. Между реконструкцией и эмиграцией: голландская помощь Украине 1922–1929 гг.

open access: yesСучасні дослідження з німецької історії, 2021
The efforts by the American Mennonite Relief organization to provide famine relief to Russia in the early 1920s are relatively well known. Far less known are the actions of Dutch Mennonite relief efforts at the same time, which were intended to ...
Ад ван де Штаай
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Franz Beranek and his activities in Slovakia [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2020
This paper deals with the research of Prof Franz Josef Beranek focused on the so called “Habans”, a social religious group that settled in western Slovakia. This research is reconstructed according to the so called German Archive, which forms a part of
Tomáš Kubisa
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