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Hardship to homeland : Pacific Northwest Volga Germans / Richard D. Scheuerman and Clifford E. Trafzer ; photographs by John Clement, illustrations by Jim Gerlitz.
Van Pelt Library F855.2.R85 S33 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheuerman, Richard D., 1951- author.
- Trafzer, Clifford E., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Volga Germans.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian Germans--Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Russian Germans.
- Russian Germans--Northwest, Pacific--Folklore.
- Folklore.
- History.
- Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Northwest, Pacific.
- Northwest, Pacific--Folklore.
- Pacific Northwest.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Washington : [WSU Press] Washington State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Follows the Volga German people from Germany to Russia in the 1760s, when Catherine the Great invited colonists to settle the Volga River region. When the Russian Senate in 1871 revoked the terms of settlement, more than 100,000 Volga Germans emigrated to North and South America, many of them to the Midwest and later to the Pacific Northwest. Also includes stories based on oral histories from Volga German elders."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874223620
- 0874223628
- OCLC:
- 1030444585
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