The Country Teachers in the Holodomor of 1932-1933: Regional Media as an Indicator of Authority Strategies

Abstract

The article is a pioneer investigating aimed to study the authority politic technology to transform the country teachers to the executants of the Holodmor of 1932-1933 in the Ukraine. The reasearch strategy created on the base of the analysis of the informational potential of the normative documents and the regional newspapers. It was argued the authority involved the teachers to the realization of the planned measures and simultaneously aimed to use teacher’s practices to conceal the fact of organizing of the Holodomor by central government. The responsibility for the process of the teacher’s mobilization to the provision of the grain was enpowered to the regional educational organizations, tradeunions, teacher meetings etc. In all cases they made decisions about participarting in the provision of the grain and other practices as a freewill retraction. However, the content of the local medias reflects the real intentions of the authority. They aimed to involve the teachers to all key activities during the provision of the grain in 1931-1932, 1932-1933. 1933-1934: the taking away the grain, participation in the tug teams, agitation for execution the plan of the grain and of money credits for government etc. It bring the possibility to conceptualize the number problem regarding the deepening historiographic notions about Holodomor as well as existential strategies of the rural population of Ukraine in 1932-1933.