Winnipeg, MB: A. Giesinger. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows light shelfwear with a couple of short tears - boards show light shelf wear, date printed in ink on FFEP, previous owner's name inked out on FFEP. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Extensive bibliography, notes and index at back. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; This is a very thorough history of how groups of German Mennonites decided to relocate to a number of colonies in Russia, how they were treated there and how many of them decided in later years to find new homes around the world. Many of them from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, settled in the the US and Canadian Prairies as well as the West Coast and to South America. The German Mennonites who decided to stay in Russia were not treated well. They were relocated from the choice farming areas of the south to Siberia. .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21120
Title: From Catherine to Khrushchev The Story of Russia's Germans
Author: Giesinger, Adam
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: A. Giesinger
Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: mennonite, Tarlyk villages, wiesenseite, volga colonies, chortitza colonies
Bookseller catalogs: Russia; RELIGION;

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