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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature -- Introduction -- Part I: Mennonite Origins -- 1 Foundations: An Ancient Faith, a Swiss Reformation, and Anabaptist Renewal -- 2 Melchoir, Münster, and Menno: From Early Dutch (Melchiorite) Anabaptists to Mennonites -- 3 A Faith Community on the Move: Mennonites, Poland, and Prussia, 1536-1800 -- Part II: Mennonites in Imperial Russia -- 4 A New Homeland in New Russia: Mennonite Settlement in the Russian Empire, 1789-1830 -- 5 Pietistic Progressivism: Johann Cornies and the Transformation of Russian Mennonitism, 1800-1848 -- 6 A Community in Crisis: A Divided Faith, the Revolt of the Landless, and Threatened Military Service, 1860-1874 -- 7 From Crisis to Consolidation: The Flourishing of Russian Mennonitism, 1865-1883 -- 8 Glory Days: The Apogee of Russian Mennonitism, 1883-1904 -- 9 Confession or Sect? German or German-Speaking? Mennonite Identity Politics on the Edge of the Abyss, 1881-1917 -- Part III: Mennonites in the Soviet Era -- 10 After Eichenfeld: Soviet-Era Mennonites between Reconstruction and Emigration, 1917-1927 -- 11 When God Leads You into the Wilderness: Mennonites in the Stalinist Crucible, 1927-1934 -- 12 The Road to Rochegda: Soviet Terror, Nazi Occupation, and Stalinist Repatriation, 1934-1953 -- 13 Detour to Dzhetisai: The Soviet Mennonite Renaissance in Stalin's Shadow, 1953-1991 -- 14 Coda: Zaporozhe 1989. One Story Ends and Another Begins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- TSARIST AND SOVIET MENNONITE STUDIES.

This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.