Гуманитарная экспедиция Рейна Виллинка в Молочанский меннонитский округ. Между реконструкцией и эмиграцией: голландская помощь Украине 1922–1929 гг.

The efforts by the American Mennonite Relief organization to provide famine relief to Russia in the early 1920s are relatively well known. Far less known are the actions of Dutch Mennonite relief efforts at the same time, which were intended to strengthen the ties between Dutch and Ukrainian Mennonites. These actions were led by Rein Willink, whose letters to his parents and reports to Frederik Fleischer, the secretary of the Algemeene Commissie voor Buitenlandsche Nooden (General Committee for Foreign Needs), are the main source for this article. Whereas the American Mennonite Relief directed its aid to the whole of Russia, the Dutch Mennonites restricted themselves to the Mennonite colony of Molochna. Although the total contribution of Dutch Mennonites to Russian co-religionists was modest compared to that of the North Americans, it was nonetheless very important when viewed from the perspective of Mennonites who did not emigrate from Molochna in the 1920s.