TY - JOUR AU - Перехрест, Олександр AU - Тітіка, Олена PY - 2022/12/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The rural women’s segment of the defense epic on the territory of Ukraine in the first period of the GermanSoviet war of 1941 – 1945. JF - Ukrainian Peasant JA - UP VL - IS - 28 SE - Селянство за умов соціокультурних, соціально-економічнихта суспільно-політичних трансформацій ХІХ – ХХ ст DO - 10.31651/2413-8142-2022-28-Perehrest-Titika UR - https://ukr-selianyn-ejournal.cdu.edu.ua/article/view/4787 SP - AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">Purpose. </span><span class="fontstyle2">The goal is a generalized analysis of the rural women’s segment of the<br>defense epic on the territory of Ukraine during the first period of the German-Soviet war 1941-<br>1945, an assessment of the role of rural women in ensuring the functioning of the agrarian sphere of<br>the republic’s economy in extremely difficult wartime conditions, showing their labor achievements<br>in the production of food for the front and the rear, participation in actions to help military units<br>and the front, evacuation of agricultural resources to the rear regions of the country, conditions of<br>everyday life of rural women’s society.<br>The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the materials presented in it, in the<br>context of the stated goal, complement the historiography of the national history of the period of the<br>Second World War in general, and the history of the Ukrainian peasantry in particular.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Conclusions. </span><span class="fontstyle2">Rural women played an important role in ensuring the functioning of the agrarian<br>sphere in the conditions of the defense epic on the territory of the republic in the first period of<br>the German-Soviet war of 1941-1945. They successfully replaced men mobilized for the army as<br>mechanics and in management positions in collective farms and state farms, and were the main<br>workforce during the care and harvesting of the crop in 1941 and the execution of a complex of<br>autumn and spring field work in 1942, in the process of production of livestock products. Thanks<br>to their hard daily work, the front and the rear received the necessary food and raw materials. Rural<br>women were massively involved in the construction of defensive lines, were active participants<br>in all patriotic actions to help the front. Women played an important role in moving agricultural<br>resources to the eastern regions of the country. In incredibly difficult material and living conditions,<br>their everyday social function was extremely important - caring for families, caring for and raising<br>children, supporting orphans and elderly fellow villagers, the disabled and the families of fallen<br>front-line soldiers, preserving the age-old traditions of the Ukrainian peasantry.</span> </p> ER -