Abstract

The article aims to research the informational potential of articles from the local media of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions about in-kind advances to collective farmers during the Holodomor of 1932-1933. Th e research methodology includes the combination of number historical methods: comparative and contextual analyses, synthesis, systematization. Scientifi c novelty. Th e article is a pioneer research of the problem related to the evaluation of the infor- mational value of the regional media materials regarding the material advances of the collective farmers. It was investigated that the diff erent articles of newspapers contain the indirect infor- mation to the many fi elds of the Holodomor from famine behaviour strategies of the village head to the plans of authority to formation of the circumstances of killing by famine. Conclusion. Th e empirical material on the kolkhoz’s advances in kind is represented in all the local media of both regions. It leads to the study of the models of contributions in kind that were developed in diff erent circumstances during the Holodomor of 1932-1933. Th ese models will make it pos- sible to deepen the scientifi c intention in relation to the following major issues: the famine in the peasants from the spring of 1932 to the June of 1933; the existential choice of the village head, the moods in the Ukrainian village during the Holodomor of 1932-1933; the strategies of the authorities aimed at the creation of mechanism of the Holodomor over the Ukraine; the psycho- logical consequences of the famine in the conscience of the rural population.

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