In Defense of Privilege
Subtitle: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I
By: by Abraham Friesen
Series: Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, No. 16
Publisher: Kindred Productions
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Hillsboro, KS, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 543
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Mennonites -- Russia -- History.; Mennonites -- Soviet Union -- History.; Church and state -- Mennonites -- History.; Church and state -- Russia -- History.; Church and state -- Soviet Union -- History.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xii; label: Archival Collections and Abbreviations
pagenum: xvi; label: Part I: Prologue to Conflict: History, Historians, and the Recovery of Heritage; label: 1. Introduction: A Russian Mennonite Parable
pagenum: 3; label: 2. In Search of Authors
pagenum: 17; label: 3. No Longer a Child
pagenum: 29; label: 4. Through the Eyes of a Stranger
pagenum: 51; label: Part II: Religious Minorities and the Orthodox State: Mennonites and the Politics of Religion after the April/October 1905 Manifesto; label: 5. "Nowhere do Heterodox Religions Enjoy so Perfect a Liberty as in Russia"
pagenum: 89; label: 6. "Raduga," the Sign of God's New Covenant with Russia
pagenum: 123; label: 7. Church and State against the Covenant: the Investigation of "Raduga"
pagenum: 141; label: 8. "The Godless Promise not to make Propaganda for the Mennonite Faith"
pagenum: 169; label: Part III: Ethnic Minorities and the War: Mennonite Isolation, Opposition to Russification, and the Coming of Land Liquidation; label: 9. "Do you not know that every German in Russia is a Spy?"
pagenum: 191; label: 10. "All this, with one Stroke of the Pen, will belong to Us"
pagenum: 211; label: 11. "We Hate and Loathe this People"
pagenum: 251; label: 12. "A Nation State will simply not tolerate Ethnic Minorities"
pagenum: 259; label: Part IV: The War, its Aftermath, and the Russian Mennonite Search for Identity; label: 13. War and Ethnic Identity: "A Process of Clarification"
pagenum: 271; label: 14. The Voelkein and the Volk: Repatriation, Emigration, and a Shifting National Identity
pagenum: 303; label: 15. Those Who Ignore History
pagenum: 327; label: Epilogue: Who are the (Russian) Mennonites?
pagenum: 345; label: Endnotes
pagenum: 373; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 493; label: Index
pagenum: 515