TY - JOUR AU - Movchan, Olga PY - 2022/12/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - he genesis, dynamics and current state of scientific discourse on the problem of the famine of 1921–1923 in the Ukrainian ssr in Ukrainian historiography JF - Ukrainian Peasant JA - UP VL - IS - 28 SE - The femine of the 1921 – 1923, the Holodomor 1932 – 1932 DO - 10.31651/2413-8142-2022-28-Movchan UR - https://ukr-selianyn-ejournal.cdu.edu.ua/article/view/4792 SP - AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">The aim </span><span class="fontstyle2">of the article is a conceptual understanding of the genesis, development,<br>and current state of the scientific controversy on the issue of the famine of 1921–1923 in Ukrainian<br>historiography based on a critical analysis of historiographical sources.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">The scientific novelty </span><span class="fontstyle2">of the publication is determined by the analysis of the conceptual<br>foundations of the scientific heritage of Ukrainian historians on the problem of the famine of 1921–<br>1923 in Ukraine.<br></span><span class="fontstyle0">Conclusions. </span><span class="fontstyle2">Studies of the famine of 1921–1923. in Ukrainian historiography, it was initiated by<br>North American historians of the Ukrainian diaspora in the colonial-imperial discourse</span><span class="fontstyle3">, </span><span class="fontstyle2">according<br>to which the famine was seen as a consequence of the colonial policy of the Russian occupation<br>government aimed at plundering Ukraine’s resources and denationalizing Ukrainians. On the<br>basis of this methodological approach, the concept of predetermination of this famine was formed<br>«starvation politic» the Bolsheviks, which aimed to use crop failure to suppress the insurgency of<br>Ukrainians. In the 1950s, to characterize the famine of 1921–1923</span><span class="fontstyle3">, the </span><span class="fontstyle2">term «artificial famine</span><span class="fontstyle3">»<br></span><span class="fontstyle2">was used, as previously used as a functional synonym for the Holodomor of 1932–1933. Since<br>the 1980s. Lenin’s «hunger policy» began to be considered as a model of J. Stalin’s organization of<br>the Holodomor of 1932–1933., and since the 2020s. </span><span class="fontstyle3">– </span><span class="fontstyle2">as a component of the policy of genocide of<br>Ukrainians by the Leninist-Stalinist leadership.<br>The domestic historiography of the problem was formed within the Soviet historiographical<br>process. The fundamental principles of the Soviet concept of famine were laid down in the writings<br>of party-Soviet leaders of the early 1920s. on the principles of Marxist-Leninist methodology. Its<br>class, party, and imperial character methodologically, factually, and thematically limited the study<br>of the history of famine. Finally, the Soviet ideological construct of the history of the famine was<br>formed by Russian historians in the 1970s. from certain historical mythologemes. He imagined<br>an imperial-colonial myth that concealed the true cause of the famine in the Ukrainian SSR – the<br>anti-Ukrainian colonial policy of the Moscow party-Soviet center. The Soviet myth of famine served<br>as an integral component of ideological colonialism in Ukraine. Positive changes in national<br>historiography have emerged since the second half of the 80s. Ukrainian scientists have attempted<br>to find new theoretical and conceptual foundations for studying the history of famine.<br>Defining the conceptual foundations of modern national historiography of the first mass<br>artificial famine in Soviet Ukraine, it is worth noting that its development began in line with the<br>totalitarian paradigm, while imperial-colonial discourse remained on the margins for some time.<br>Trying to break out of a rather mechanistic scheme of covering Soviet history, the researchers<br>resorted to the methodological experience of foreign Western historiography. They did a lot to clear<br>the historiographical space from the imperial-colonial myths of Russian historiography. Since the<br>2000s. the history of the first famine in Soviet Ukraine begins to be considered in the discourse of<br>genocide. The peculiarity of the development of the Ukrainian historiography of the first Soviet<br>famine in recent times was the spread of its interpretation, first as artificial or deliberately organized,<br>and over time, on the basis of the discovery of previously unknown facts of mass famine in 1922–<br>1923, not only in officially starving (southeastern), but also in other areas – as «mass artificial».</span> </p> ER -