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 thehistory of the multinational Russian Empire, assessing as it does the impact of national policy in the outlying provinces.
James W. Long's book shatters the prevailing view of the Volga Germans in Russia, showing them not untouched by time but remarkably...
From Privileged to Dispossessed is a social and economic history of the foreign settlers who emigrated to the Volga region in Russia in the eig...
