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Foreword: the editor and guest editor 7
JMS Forum: Mennonites in Siberia Papers Translated from Russian
Mennonites and Germans in Russia Today: A Study of Ethno-Sociological Polls, TATIANA B. SMIRNOVA 13
The Mennonite Colonies of Siberia: From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, PETR P. WIEBE 23
The Formation and Development of the Mennonite Congregations in Kazakhstan: From the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twenty First Century, YULIA I. PODOPRIGORA 37
The 1929 Emigration of Mennonites from the USSR: An Examination of Documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, ANDREY I. SAVIN 45
The Mennonites of Altai: Marriage Structures and Cultural Transmission, SERGEY V. SOKOLOVSKY 57
Mennonite Associations in Siberia in the 1950s and 1960s, ALEXY V. GORBATOV 67
The Mennonite Congregations in the Tomsk Oblast during ‘Thaw’ and ‘Stagnation,’ IRAIDA V. NAM 73
Test of Faith: Religious Mennonite Organizations of Orenburg Region, 1945-1991, KONSTANTIN A. MORGUNOV 79
The Mennonite Community of the Tyumen' Oblast: A Short History from the 1940s to the 1980s, VERA P. KLYUEVA 89
A Root Out of Dry Ground: Revival Patterns in the German Free Churches in the USSR after World War II, JOHANNES DYCK 97
A Brief History of the Omsk Brotherhood, PETER EPP 113 The Transition of Siberian Mennonites to Baptists: Causes and Results, ALEXANDER WEISS 133
Papers Presented in English
The Case of a Siberian Sect: Mennonites and the Incomplete Transformation of Russia’s Religious Structure, AILEEN FRIESEN 139
Siberia in the Mennonite Imagination, 1880-1914: Land, Weather, Markets, HANS WERNER 159
Mennonite Education in Siberia: Heinrich P. Wieler in the Classroom, 1916-1918, LAWRENCE KLIPPENSTEIN 173
Economic Narratives Revisited: Female Contributions to Family Sustainability in Omsk, LINDA EARL and KATHLEEN WIENS 191
The Transnational Labour of Mennonite Midwives in Siberia, Canada and Paraguay, MARLENE EPP 203
“Writing Through the Flowers”: Masked Messages in Letters from Siberian Special Settlements, 1930-1938, RUTH DERKSEN SIEMENS 217
“Overrun and Swept Along by War”: The Gulag in the Memoir of Katharina (Hildebrand) Krueger, SARAH CARTER and MARY HILDEBRANDT 237
Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs from Siberia, P. TRAVIS KROEKER and BRUCE K. WARD 251
Reforging Mennonite Spetspereselentsy: The Experience of Mennonite Exiles at Siberian Special Settlements in the Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Narym Regions, 1930-1933, COLIN P. NEUFELDT 269
Changing Mentalities: Inter-Relationships between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia, WALTER SAWATSKY 315
Representing ‘New Canadians’: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba, ALEXANDER FREUND 339 ‘Siberia’ in the Writings of North American Mennonite Historians, ROYDEN LOEWEN and PAUL TOEWS 363
Book Reviews
Reviews of Fiction and Poetry Armin Wiebe, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Di Brandt) 373
Miriam Toews, Irma Voth (Rob Zacharias) 379
Reviews of History and Social Sciences Harry Loewen, Cities of Refuge: Stories from Anabaptist- Mennonite History and Life (Robyn Sneath) 382
Mark Jantzen, Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880 (Peter J. Klassen) 384
Calvin Wall Redekop, European Mennonite Voluntary Service: Youth Idealism in Post-World War II Europe (Lucille Marr) 385
Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell, An Amish Paradox. Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community (Karen Johnson-Weiner) 387
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State (Kimberly D. Schmidt) 390
Mary Neufeld, A Prairie Pilgrim: Wilhelm H. Falk (Victor Kliewer) 392
Barb Draper, The Mennonites of St. Jacobs and Elmira: Understanding the Variety (James P. Hurd) 395
Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen, Woldemar Neufeld’s Canada: A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape 1925-1995 (Lisa Kehler) 397
Donald B. Kraybill, Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites and Mennonites (Conrad Stoesz) 399
Gene Stoltzfus, Create Space for Peace: Forty Years of Peacemaking (Christopher Hrynkow) 400 Leo Driedger, At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg (Jeremy Wiebe) 403
Authors’ Profiles 407
Reviewers’ Profiles 411
Notices and Calls for Papers 413