Friday, January 25, 2013

Emigration from Russia

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By the 2/3 point of the 19 th century, many emigrants began to seek homes outside Russia and Russian emigration to the United States bega...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Ostrog County, Volhynia, Geography

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The area occupied by my forefathers in western Ukraine lies at the crossroads of the eastern European regions of Volhynia (Ukr: Volyn, Вол...

Soviet Collectivization and the Eviction of the Kulaks

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After the Bolshevik Revolution, the communists began to single out specific societal groups known as the kulaks (кулакс).  Kulaks , altho...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Transportation and Communication in 19th Century Volhynia

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Communication and transportation services increased in Volhynian Russia, as they did across the globe during the 19 th Century.  By the l...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Ethnic Minority Groups in 19th Century Ostrog and Zaslaw Counties

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The native inhabitants of Volhynia included Poles, Ukrainians (Volhynians, Podolians and Galicians), as well as some White Russians (Byelo...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Menno Township, Marion County, Kansas

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Initially when the Andreas Ratzlaff family settled in Kansas, they rented a farm in the southeast corner of Section 24, Menno Township, Mari...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Social Divisions in Imperial Russia

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Russian society was strictly divided into social classes or estates ( sosloviia, cословия) , separating one social group from another.  Li...