“TERROR-FAMINE” AS A WAY TO BUILD OBEDIENT SOCIETY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF OLEVSK DISTRICT VILLAGES IN ZHYTOMYR REGION)
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https://doi.org/10.21847/1728-9343.2021.2(1).230337Keywords:
collectivization, grain procurement, in-kind fines, terror-famine, Holodomor, peasants, Olevsk districtAbstract
The article shows the implementation of the policy of subjection of the peasants of the border Olevsk district in Polissya by the Soviet authorities through the use of terror-famine. Based on the materials of the State Archives of Zhytomyr Region, which were first introduced into scientific circulation, and the involvement of the available source and historiographical array, it has been proved that the Holodomor was used as genocide in the villages of the district, as well as throughout Ukraine, and exterminated the population only in 1933. The concept of “famine” or “terror-famine” should be applied to mass deaths in 1932, a well-planned action by the authorities to exterminate the number of peasants who resisted the government’s policies and thus force everyone else to work on the collective farms with “full efficiency”. Having studied in detail the content of the materials of the Olevsk Party Committee and the reports of the 19th Olevsk Border Department, the author reconstructs the course of collective farm construction in the “Olevsk border area”, emphasizing that the resistance of the peasants was fierce. This provoked the authorities to use artificial famine against the dissatisfied in order to build ideal farms, demonstrative for foreign neighbors, on the border.
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