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| In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I | View shopping basket | |
| by Abraham Friesen | ||
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The Transition from being a severely persecuted religious minority in the Reformation era to becoming a privileged ethnic minority in the 19th-century Russian empire makes the Dutch-Polish- Russian Mennonite story a very intriguing one. Yet the privileges granted these Mennonites by Russia in 1800-permanent exemption from military service, freedom of religion, self-government, and control of their own schools-came under attach by imperial authorities with the government's decision to implement russification policies in the 1860s. The second section of t his study documents how the Mennonites fought back, resisting the government's attempt to assimilate them and to restrict their religious freedom. When war against Germany erupted, Mennonites were left with little support. They had largely alienated the Russian government through their opposition to its russification policies. Although Russian Mennonites were predominantly of Dutch ancestry, they had become Germanized while in Poland/Prussia and now came to be considered part of the internal "German" threat. The third section deals with the Mennonite attempts to secure exemption from laws such as the land liquidation laws on the basis of their Dutch ethnicity. These two parts of the study are set between an introductory set of chapters that deal with the Mennonites' growing awareness of the importance of history and their recovery of an "Anabaptist Vision," and a concluding section on their search for identity in the aftermath of their struggle with the government. During the years of conflict, Mennonites drafted many documents addressing the basic question: "Who are the Mennonites?" The epilogue probed the development of a Russian Mennonite identity in relation to their previous history. Copyright 2006 Kindred Productions. | |
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