The Russian Germans under Double Eagle and the Soviet Star : including a pictorial history of cities, landscape and people /
Längin, Bernd G., 1941-,
The Russian Germans under Double Eagle and the Soviet Star : including a pictorial history of cities, landscape and people / Russian Germans Bernd G. Längin ; translated by Jack Thiessen and Audrey Poetker ; pictorial documentation by Hanns-Michael Schindler ; edited by Alex Herzog & Nancy Herzog. - ix, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Translation of: Die Russlanddeutschen unter Doppeladler und Sowjetstern published in 1991.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Mehr wolla bleiwa, was mr sain" -- History in numbers -- The Russian Germans. The siren call of the Czarina ; First called, then banned -- The Volga region -- Ukraine -- Germans in the Caucasus -- Bessarabia -- Volhynia -- Siberia, steppe regions and Middle Asia.
Called by the Czars, banned by the Soviets: The Russian-Germans. Their great contributions advanced the cause of the Russian Empire for two hundred years. Twenty years later they became driftwood of history. For some two million Russian-Germans the question of autonomy or immigration commenced with the onset of glasnost and perestroika. The author paints a picture of the rise and fall of a German minority under the Double Eagle and the Soviet Star: with an effectively unknown face, a history is recalled before all traces of the German generations on the Volga, in Ukraine, in the Caucasus, Bessarabia and Volhynia are completely obliterated.--(Page [4] of cover).
389350107X 9783893501076
2013948423
Germans--History.--Soviet Union
Russian Germans--History.
Soviet Union--Pictorial works.
The Russian Germans under Double Eagle and the Soviet Star : including a pictorial history of cities, landscape and people / Russian Germans Bernd G. Längin ; translated by Jack Thiessen and Audrey Poetker ; pictorial documentation by Hanns-Michael Schindler ; edited by Alex Herzog & Nancy Herzog. - ix, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Translation of: Die Russlanddeutschen unter Doppeladler und Sowjetstern published in 1991.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Mehr wolla bleiwa, was mr sain" -- History in numbers -- The Russian Germans. The siren call of the Czarina ; First called, then banned -- The Volga region -- Ukraine -- Germans in the Caucasus -- Bessarabia -- Volhynia -- Siberia, steppe regions and Middle Asia.
Called by the Czars, banned by the Soviets: The Russian-Germans. Their great contributions advanced the cause of the Russian Empire for two hundred years. Twenty years later they became driftwood of history. For some two million Russian-Germans the question of autonomy or immigration commenced with the onset of glasnost and perestroika. The author paints a picture of the rise and fall of a German minority under the Double Eagle and the Soviet Star: with an effectively unknown face, a history is recalled before all traces of the German generations on the Volga, in Ukraine, in the Caucasus, Bessarabia and Volhynia are completely obliterated.--(Page [4] of cover).
389350107X 9783893501076
2013948423
Germans--History.--Soviet Union
Russian Germans--History.
Soviet Union--Pictorial works.