Imprisonment and Persecution in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, Part 1 (Session 2)

Recorded October 3, 2025, at the University of Winnipeg Chair: Brian Froese • Nataliya Venger, “Peace, Order, and Offence: State Legal Regulation of Mennonite Colonies in the Russian Empire (18th–19th Centuries)” • Ed Krahn, “The 1925 Second Martyrs’ Synod and the KfK” • Maria Lotsmanova, “Special Settlements as the Lesser-Known Form of Official State Persecution During Stalinism: The Experience of My Ancestors” Aileen Friesen, “A Gendered Analysis of NKVD Arrest Files” Full conference program: https://ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/menn...