- Title : Red Quarter Moon: A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin (Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies)
- Author : Anne Konrad
- Rating : 4.73 (730 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-5-9
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 368 Pages
- Asin : 1442611391
- Language : English
Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR.Konrad's search for these missing extended family members took place over twenty years and five continents - on muddy roads, lonesome steppes, and in old letters, document
Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR.Konrad's search for these missing extended family members took place over twenty years and five continents - on muddy roads, lonesome steppes, and in old letters, documents, or secret police archives. Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. She aligns the voices of her subjects chronologically against the backdrop of Soviet policy, intertwining the historical context of the Terror Years with her own personal quest. Her story emerges as both haunting and inspiring, filled with dramatically different accounts from survivors now scattered across the world. An ethno-religious minority, they became s‘Konrad has crafted a gripping piece of scholarship that immerses the reader in both stories of her family and her own process of discovery.’ (Sean Patterson Journal of Mennonite Studies; vol 31:2013)‘In this historical narrative, Anne Konrad has written a fascinating book about her search for her Russian-Mennonite relatives who were lost after the ”Shadow of Stalin” had covered their homeland.’ (Harry Loewen Mennonite Quarterly Review)‘This personal narrative of one of the darkest hours for Russian Mennonites is one of the most compelling I have read… The stories, always riveting in their emotion and energy, are told in historical context so that you always know the backdrop of what was driving the governing officials, the guards and the many henchmen who carried out their ruthless rules.’ (Dick Benner Canadian Mennonite November 26, 2012)Anne Konrad is a writer living in Toronto.
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