About Leonard G. Friesen Leonard G. Friesen is an associate professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. Books by Leonard G. Friesen Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Through Much Tribulation by (author) Leonard G. Friesen Minority Report Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789-1945 edited by Leonard G. Friesen