Досвід виживання жінок в Акмолінському таборі для дружин зрадників Батьківщини (на основі его свідчень).

Abstract

The main task of the author is an attempt to show the specificity of everyday life of the women-prisoners of Akmolinsk camp for the wives of «traitors of the Motherland», emphasizing the ways of survival of the prisoners and forms of overcoming their grief in the camp. Fundamentally in the methodological base of research there are general scientific principles of analysis and synthesis, the method of critical analysis of sources, the methodology of everyday history, as well as the methodology of working with ego-documents. In the article, the author used the anthropocentric approach according to which the main object of study is a person, as well as the gender approach to analyze the actual female dimension of everyday life in camps. Akmolinsk camp differed not only from other correctional labor camps of the GULAG system, but also from similar ones. Women had their own value system there and tried to survive behind barbed wire in a different way. Their daily condemnation was assisted by daily work and faith in the future, namely, the quickest release. And in order to survive the grief from the loss of the family and friends, creativity and friendship with each other helped. This topic in the future can be used to compare the everyday life of women in different periods of the existence of a corrective labor system. In the future, the results of the research may be useful for a more profound analysis of the camp experience of Ukrainian women. In general, the expansion and further analysis of this topic is important for the formation of historical memory in Ukraine and the overcoming of the totalitarian past.