The feature article “Reform without class war” by Professor Harvey Dyck, University of Toronto, provides a glimpse into the experience of Mennonites in Soviet Russia during the 1920s and an up-date on the archival legacy of Mennonites in the Ukraine and Russia. This article is an extract from a chapter of the forthcoming book, Mennonites in the Soviet Inferno, to be published in early 1999, co-edited by Harvey Dyck and Anne Conrad.