From Privileged to Dispossessed: The Volga Germans, 1860-1917

by James W. Long and James W. Long

From Privileged to Dispossessed is a social and economic history of the foreign settlers who emigrated to the Volga region in Russia in the eighteenth century. Concentrating on the years 1860 to 1917, a period of rapid change in Russia, it is at once a detailed look at life in the lower Volga valley and a vital chapter in the history of the multinational Russian Empire, assessing as it does the impact of national policy in the outlying provinces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803228813
• ISBN13: 9780803228818
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.8"