TY  - BOOK
AU  - Staples,John R.
TI  - Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1784-1861 
T2  - Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
SN  - 9780802037244
AV  - DK508.9.Z36 S73 2003eb
U1  - 947.7/3 22
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Molochansḱ Region
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Steppes
KW  - Molochna River Region
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - A regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development. Using a wide variety of sources, including local Ukrainian and Russian archives never before examined by a western scholar, John Staples compares and contrasts how the Mennonites, Nogais, Russians, Ukrainians, and other groups transformed their environments and adapted to life in the Molochna Valley.Staples contends that the allocation and use of land formed a central hub around which public life in Molochna revolved, and determined the success or failure of each group. Ultimately, he concludes, it was the settlers, not the state, who decided how they would adapt to the arid southern Ukrainian steppe. Perhaps most importantly, Staples makes a major contribution to the investigation of how peasant groups can emerge from their traditionalist mentality and life-style as the Mennonites of Molochna did. His thoughtful analysis will be a welcome addition to the study of both Tsarist peasant history and Russian and Ukrainian agricultural and peasant history
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442673625
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442673625/original
ER  -