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Kloberdanz, Timothy J. “The Volga Germans in Old Russia and in Western North America: Their Changing World View.” Anthropological Quarterly 48, no. 4 (October 1, 1975): 209–222. doi:10.2307/3316632. Laing, Francis S. (1910). German-Russian settlements in Ellis County, Kansas. Kansas State Historical Society.
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862. Self-published: Tübingen, 1972. Adam Geisinger. From Catherine to Khrushchev: the story of Russia's Germans. Winnipeg: Marian Press, 1974. (London: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 1993, ISBN 0-914222-05-8) Gottlieb Beratz. The German Colonies on the Lower Volga.
Germans from Russia were the most traditional of German-speaking arrivals to North America. In the United States, many settled primarily in the Dakotas, Kansas, and Nebraska by 1900. The south-central part of North Dakota was known as "the German-Russian triangle" (that includes descendants of Black Sea Germans).
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
The American Volga Relief Society was a German American non-governmental organization that provided relief and supplies to ethnically German settlements in the area around the Volga River. The group was active following World War I, during the period between 1921 and 1924. The organization officially disbanded in 1926, though private donations ...
The historical part of this overview is drawn primarily from Stumpp's The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 (English translation from the original German, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1973), [23] and Giesinger's From Catherine to Khrushchev : The Story of Russia's Germans (1974). [24]
Interessengemeinschaft Mandan-Indianer, Leipzig 1970; historical reenactment, with Germans playing Native Americans, was quite popular in communist East Germany. Native Americans in German popular culture have, since the 18th century, been a topic of fascination, with imaginary Native Americans influencing German ideas and attitudes towards environmentalism, literature, art, historical ...
"The Volga Germans : in Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the present" University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. Print. Karl Stumpp. "The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862." Tübingen: Published by the author with the cooperation of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1972. Print.