@article{889973,
      recid = {889973},
      author = {Friesen, Leonard G.,},
      title = {Minority report : Mennonite identities in imperial Russia  and Soviet Ukraine reconsidered, 1789-1945 /},
      pages = {xii, 338 pages :},
      abstract = {"The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of  longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight  into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report,  Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly  reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the  former Soviet Ukraine. This volume engages scholars from  Ukraine, Russia, and North America, and includes translated  and accessible contributions by scholars from the  Ukrainian-German Institute of Dnipropetrovsk State  University. Minority Report is divided into four sections:  New Approaches to Mennonite History; Imperial Mennonite  Isolationism Revisited; Mennonite Identities in Diaspora;  and Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron. An  appendix is included which recounts for the first time the  emergence of Mennonite public history in southern Ukraine  after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The volume's  contributors reveal that far from being isolated from the  larger society, Mennonites played an integral role in  shaping the entire region. Minority Report successfully  places Mennonite history within the recent  historiographical insights offered by Ukrainian and Russian  scholars and significantly enriches our understanding of  minority relations in Soviet Ukraine."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889973},
}