Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 – Summer 1987

Cover: The cover picture shows the Reverend and Mrs. Osipoff with a group of refugees from Russia at the Baptist Church in Harbin, China. It is one of the illustrations for the article “Escape From Russia” by Katie Michelson Melvin.
Content:

“A Latvian Apostle to the German Lutherans” by Father Christopher L. Zugger
“The Kulaks” by Alexander Dupper
“We Sing Our History” by Lawrence A. Weigel
Book reviews: “Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene” reviewed by Richard H. Allen; “The Nation Killers, Kolyma, and Harvest of Sorrow” reviewed by Rogert Meininger; and “Siberian Diary of Aron R. Toews” reviewed by Peter H. Rempel
“Summary of and Problems Relating to Dialectal and Ethnographical Studies of German Settlements in the U.S.S.R.,” (Chapters 4 and 5) by Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunskii, translated by Alexander Dupper
“Arrangement of Villages and Types of Houses in the German Settlements in Russia,” an article from Heimatbuch der Ostumsiedler 1954, translated by Erika Barton
“Books and Articles Recently Added to the AHSGR Archives” by Frances Amen and Mary Lynn Tuck
“Catholic Consecration Festivals in the Catholic Villages on the Volga,” article from Heimatbuch der Ostumsiedler 1954, by Adam Weisbeeker, translated by Dona Reeves-Marquardt
“The Kolkhozy in the U.S.S.R. 1918-1939,” an article from Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland 1961, by A. Prinz, translated by Jo Ann Kuhr
“Going West,” taken from Chicago Daily Tribune
“Kerb Among the Volga Germans” an article from Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland 1961, by Alma Stahf, translated by Donna Reeves-Marquardt
“Autobiography of Friedrich Dorn”