Path of Thorns - Soviet Mennonite Life Under Communist and Nazi Rule

Paths of Thorns is the story of Jacob Abramovich Neufeld (1895–1960), a prominent Soviet Mennonite leader and writer, as well as one of these Mennonites sent to the Gulag.

List of contents

Maps

Introduction and Analysis, Harvey L. Dyck

PART I. MY PATH OF THORNS

PART II. ‘TIEFENWEGE (TRAGIC PASSAGES),’ 1929-1949

Section One: New Directions and Shattering Experiments, 1928-1939

Section Two: World War II, Bolshevik Collapse and German Occupation, 1941-1943

Section Three: The Great Trek, 1943-1944

Section Four: Germany’s Collapse, 1944-1945

Section Five: Allied Occupation and Emigration, 1945-1949

PART III. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LETTER TO WIFE, LENE

NOTES

About the author

By Jacob A. Neufeld
Edited, with an Introduction and Analysis, by Harvey L. Dyck
Translated from the German by Harvey L. Dyck and Sarah Dyck

Summary

Paths of Thorns is the story of Jacob Abramovich Neufeld (1895-1960), a prominent Soviet Mennonite leader and writer, as well as one of these Mennonites sent to the Gulag.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob J. Neufeld
• Assisted by: Harvey L. Dyck (Editor), Sarah Dyck (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2014
• EAN: 9781442646094
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4609-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite S; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories