The Famine of 1932–1933 in Historical Memory: Ukraine vs Russia (Reflections on Oral History Sources)

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2020.05.176

Keywords:

oral history sources, oral history, famine of 1932–1933, historical memory, Kuban, Russia, Ukraine

Abstract

The goal of the article is to analyze condition in informational space (here we take oral history centers and internet network) of the famine 1932–1933 survivors’ testimonies in Russia to find presence or abscence of the given above famine in historical memory.

The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. The main methods are the methods of periodization (analysis of oral history sources in the frames of certain chronological frames), history-cultural attribution (dependence of time and place of creation, content of oral history sources on specific social professional environment and value imperatives of this environment) and history-comparative (correlation of development vectors and making available of oral history sources about the famine in Russia and Ukraine).

Scientific novelty. The article suggests looking at the problem of preservation of memory about the famine of the beginning of the 1930-s in Russia through the prism of accumulation of historical sources about this event – of oral history by specific research centers and representation of these data in internet.

Conclusions. The author states relative presence in informational space of oral history sources about the famine in Kuban of 1932–1933 represented in: publication of sources; of separate testimonies; activity of scientific expeditions of Kuban choir on writing down of testimonies, including ones about the famine. At the same time, the resources with the testimonies of the famine survivors in the regions other than Kuban are almost absent. It is important to take into account that the centers on oral history research have been created in many Russian regions. The article proposes explanations of such geographical disproportions in representation on oral history sources in Russian Federation.

References

Alekseenko, I.I. (1993). Repressii na Kubani i Severnom Kavkaze v 30-e gg. XX veka. Izdano po zakazu Krasnodarskogo informatsionnogo nauchno-metodicheskogo tsentra. [in Russian].

Berdinskikh, V.A. (1992). Problemy ustnoi istorii v SSSR. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 5, 149–152. [in Russian].

Bondarev, V.A. (2009). Golod 1932–1933 v iuzhnorossyjskoj istoriografii: problemy, napravleniia i perspektivy issledovaniia. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 g.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 10–18. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Borysenko, V. (2007) Svicha pamiati: Usna istoriia pro henotsyd ukraintsiv u 1932–1933 rr. Kyiv: Stylos. [in Ukrainian].

Eremeeva, A.N. (2009). Golod na Kubany v pamiaty kubanskoho uchenoho V.F Pysarenko. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 g.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 208–219. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Golod na Kubani: 1932–1933 gg. Polevye materialy Kubanskoi folklorno-etnograficheskoi ekspeditsii Nauchnoissledovatelskogo tsentra traditsionnoi kul’tury GNTU “Kubanskij kazachij khor” (2009). Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 g.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 336–442. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Khudova, D. (1995). Chernye dosky: tabula rasa: Golod 1932–33 v ustnykh svydetelstvakh. Golod 1932–1933 gg. (Ed. Yu.N.Afanasiev), 67–87. Moskva: RGGU. [in Russian].

Kondrashin, V. (2008). Prilozhenie 1: Spisok svidetelei goloda 1932–1933 gg. v Povolzhie i na Iuzhnom Urale, oproshennykh avtorom v khode sotsiologicheskogo obsledovaniia povolzhskikh i iuzhnouralskikh dereven. Golod 1932–1933 gg.: tragediia rossiiskoi derevni, 488–506. Moskva: ROSSPEN. [in Russian].

Korsakova, N.A. (2009). Golod 1932–1933 gg. na Kubani v vospominaniakh starozhilov. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 gg.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev, 208–215. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Kulchytskyi, S.V. (2021). Kondrashyn Viktor Viktorovych. Entsyklopediia istorii Ukrainy. Dodatkovyi tom 2. [in Ukrainian].

Pertseva, Iu. (2014). Rol nauchnykh tsentrov v izuchenii i sokhranenii kulturnogo nasledyia kazakov Iuga Rossii (1970– 2000-e gg.). Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 3(27), 93–104. [in Russian].

Rebrova, Yu. (2010). Organizatsiia i deiatelnost studencheskogo nauchnogo obshchestva po ustnoi istorii Kubanskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnologicheskogo universiteta. U poshukakh vlasnoho holosu: Usna istoriia yak teoriia, metod ta dzherelo. (Eds. H.H.Hrinchenko, N.Khanenko-Frizen), 120–128. Kharkiv. [in Russian].

Rozhkov, A.Iu. (2009). «Myshi sieli liudei…»: pamiat o golode 1932–1933 gg. v otklikakh na publikatsii I.I.Alekseenko. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 gg.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 48–57. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Ryblova, M.A. (2012). “Ustnaia istoriia” donskikh kazakov v polevykh etnograficheskikh issledovaniiakh. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 1(21), 177–184. [in Russian].

Verstiuk, V. (2009). Holodomor 1932–1933 rr. v Ukraini – henotsyd ukrainskoho narodu. Holodomor 1932–1933 rr. v Ukraini: prychyny, demohrafichni naslidky, pravova otsinka: Materialy mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsiï. Kyiv, 25–26 veresnia 2008 r., 15–31. Kyiv: VD “Kyievo-Mohylianska akademiia”. [in Ukrainian].

Vlaskina, N.A. (2009). Iazykovoi kontsept golod v Donskikh govorakh. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932–1933 gg.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 174–184. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Vlaskina T.Iu. (2009). Golod na Donu po ustnym svidetelstvam. Istorycheskaia pamiat naseleniia Iuga Rossii o golode 1932– 1933 gg.: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Eds. N.I.Bondar, O.V.Matveev), 155–174. Krasnodar. [in Russian].

Published

2020-10-30

How to Cite

Boriak, T. (2020). The Famine of 1932–1933 in Historical Memory: Ukraine vs Russia (Reflections on Oral History Sources). Ukrainian Historical Journal, (5), 176–190. https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2020.05.176

Issue

Section

METHODOLOGY. HISTORIOGRAPHY. SOURCES