Toolkit of the Holodomor in the Formation of Mass Consciousness in the Totalitarian Era (On the Example of Ethnic Minority Communities)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2024.03.091Keywords:
national councils, national districts, totalitarianism, Holodomor, grain provision, genocide, genocidal practices, terror, repressions, “wooden language”, conformism, “class war”, totalitarian transformation of society, totalitarian atomizationAbstract
The purpose is to analyze the influence of hunger-inducing technologies on the state of mass consciousness in the places of settlement of ethnic minorities of the UkrSSR.
The methodological basis is the principles of historicism, scientific, and problem-chronological, applied in the conceptual framework of totalitarian studies.
The scientific novelty lies in revealing the algorithms of the totalitarian transformation of mass consciousness under the influence of the Holodomor on the example of ethnic minority communities of the UkrSSR.
The main results. The totalitarian transformation of the sphere of mentality, individual, and group behavior under the influence of the Holodomor tragedy is refl ected in the example of residents of national districts, village councils, and villages of the UkrSSR. The decisive role of the political instrumentalization of artifi cial famine in the approval of the totalitarian Communist-Bolshevik system is shown.
