Die Wolgadeutschen Unsere Leute

Author : Gary Leikam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1957061057

Get Book

Die Wolgadeutschen Unsere Leute by Gary Leikam Pdf

Author : Gary Leikam
Publisher : Gary Leikam
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Die Wolgadeutschen Unsere Leute by Gary Leikam Pdf

This book is the first of a two-volume set, which together, tell the epic story of die Wolgadeutschen (the Volga Germans), from both a big picture and small picture perspective. This volume, Unsere Leute (Our People), relates the broad, overall story of the Volga German people and their place in history. It is a compelling saga in its own right, but it also provides the historical backdrop and context for the personal family stories told in the companion volume, Unsere Familien (Our Families). Although each volume can stand on its own, they are designed to complement one another. The story is divided into three parts: Part I: The Volga Colonies – This part covers the migration of a large number of Germans who settled the wild and barren Volga steppes in the 1760s; the hardships they overcame in establishing their colonies; and after a century of rapid growth and prosperity, the changing economic and political conditions that led many to seek a fresh start in the New World. Part II: The American Homeland – This part focuses on the story of the waves of Volga German immigrants who left Russia in the late 1870s, to establish new settlements on the virgin prairies in northwest Kansas; survived the severe economic hardships of the Great Depression/Dust Bowl era; fought against their primordial German fatherland in two world wars; and eventually assimilated into the fabric of modern American culture. Part III: Our Russian Kinfolk – This part follows the fate of the Volga Germans who remained in Russia after their kin departed to America. It details the tragic events that befell them during the Communist Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the Great Famine, collectivization, Stalin's ruthless genocidal purges, and their mass deportation to the Siberian hinterlands following the outbreak of World War II. This is the most important part of the book. The lessons of the Volga Germans' experience are particularly relevant for Americans today, and offer a stark reminder of the dangers of tyranny and the importance of protecting our precious individual liberties. This book is a great read for anyone interested in learning the history and culture of this unique ethnic group, especially those with family ties to the Volga German communities in Ellis County, Kansas.

Author : Gary Leikam,Elvira (Leikam) Zybareva,Roman Weilert
Publisher : Gary Leikam
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Die Wolgadeutschen Unsere Familien by Gary Leikam,Elvira (Leikam) Zybareva,Roman Weilert Pdf

This book is the second of a two-volume set, which together, tell the story of die Wolgadeutschen, the Volga Germans, from both a big picture and small picture perspective. The first volume, Unsere Leute (Our People), uses a wide-angle lens to tell the broad, overall story of the Volga German people and their place in history. This volume, Unsere Familien (Our Families), zooms in and narrows the focus to tell the personal family stories of the author's paternal Leikam and Karlin ancestors, and the family stories of two Russian cousins from another branch of the Leikam family, and the closely related Weilert family. These four interwoven families lived closely together in Katharinenstadt on the banks of the Volga, for over a century, until the 1870s, when changing economic and political conditions led many to seek a fresh start in the New World. Their histories took widely divergent paths from this point. The author's ancestors were among the waves of Volga German immigrants who left Russia in the late 1870s, to establish new settlements on the virgin prairies in northwest Kansas; survived the severe economic hardships of the Great Depression/Dust Bowl era; fought against their primordial fatherland in two world wars; and eventually assimilated into the fabric of modern American culture. His Russian cousins’ ancestors remained in Russia. Their family stories are both poignant tales, filled with drama and tragedy, that play out during the terrible decades of the Communist Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the Great Famine, collectivization, Stalin’s reign of terror, and the deportation after the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941. But both are also positive stories of the survival of human decency and goodness in the midst of profound evil. This book is a must for anyone related to or interested in these families. The comparison and contrast of the parallel histories of these four closely related families also makes it a great addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Volga Germans in general.

Author : Fred C. Koch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271038148

Get Book

The Volga Germans by Fred C. Koch Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Germans
ISBN : UCAL:$B725827

Get Book

Deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsblätter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027955652

Get Book

Das Echo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Germans
ISBN : UOM:39015070251239

Get Book

Deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsblätter by Anonim Pdf

V. 3 no. 1 has supplement: Gustav Körner, deutsche-amerikanischer jurist, staatsmann, diplomat und geschichtschriber. Ein lebensbild von H. A. Rattermann.

Author : Helen Heuser,William Heuser,Elizabeth Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062877006

Get Book

The Heuser/Heiser Heritage by Helen Heuser,William Heuser,Elizabeth Weber Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078857730

Get Book

Bulletin of Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick C. Luebke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000086561

Get Book

Ethnicity on the Great Plains by Frederick C. Luebke Pdf

Author : American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Germans
ISBN : WISC:89060426335

Get Book

Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia by American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Pdf

Author : Melvin Ember,Carol R. Ember,Ian A. Skoggard
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106016525054

Get Book

Encyclopedia of World Cultures by Melvin Ember,Carol R. Ember,Ian A. Skoggard Pdf

"This volume, with one hundred new articles, supplements the award-winning 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures ... organized and prepared by the Human Relations Area Files"--Preface

Author : Karl Stumpp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Germans
ISBN : WISC:89040949851

Get Book

The German-Russians by Karl Stumpp Pdf

Author : Brent Alan Mai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Germans
ISBN : OCLC:163234902

Get Book

Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga by Brent Alan Mai Pdf

Lists names of emigrants.

Author : James w Long
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803228813

Get Book

From Privileged to Dispossessed by James w Long Pdf

From Privileged to Dispossessed is a social and economic history of the foreign settlers who emigrated to the Volga region in Russia in the eighteenth century. Concentrating on the years 1860 to 1917, a period of rapid change in Russia, it is at once a detailed look at life in the lower Volga valley and a vital chapter in theøhistory of the multinational Russian Empire, assessing as it does the impact of national policy in the outlying provinces. James W. Long's book shatters the prevailing view of the Volga Germans in Russia, showing them not untouched by time but remarkably adaptable to ever-changing circumstances. It reveals how numerous nineteenth-century government reforms and rapid economic development, and the subsequent restruc-turing of state and society, transformed their lives for good and ill. It also illustrates the striking continuity of a misguided nationality policy that alienated a loyal, productive minority group by means of rigorous Russification and expropriation of landholdings. From Privileged to Dispossessed makes extensive use of rare materials from major Soviet research libraries and of oral interviews with Volga German immigrants. The book will be of special interest not only to historians but to people of Volga German descent, whose ancestors had learned to survive in a foreign land a century before they came to the North American prairies in the 1870s.