Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration -- Glossary of Russian Weights and Measures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Colonization and Administrative Policy -- 3 Adaptation on the Land-Rich Steppe, 1783-1833 -- 4 The Great Drought of 1832-1834 -- 5 Johann Cornies and the Birth of a New Mennonite World View -- 6 The Path Taken by the Orthodox State Peasants: Land Repartition -- 7 Consolidation and Alienation -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.
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