THE TERM «WAR» AS A SOUTH-UKRAINIAN PEASANTRY’S ORAL HISTORY CONSTRUCTION

  • Yu. Irioglu Zaporizhzhia National University
Keywords: South Ukraine, war, peasantry, oral history

Abstract

The article focuses on establishing of mnemonic characters regarding the World War II among peasant commons. The term’s “war” inner structure and its content are analyzed in the light of violation phenomenon. Special attention is brought to studying characters which are traditionally associated with the events of war. In particularly, they are “Germans”, “policemen”, “ostarbeiter”, “postwar rebuilding/famine”. Also, the author defined a high level of socio-political and cultural factors impact on establishing mnemonic characters . The main emphasis is made on collectivization/de-kulakization and Holodomor. The article contains the main subjects common for oral histories and socio-cultural characteristics of the peasant commons based on traditional society’s perspective. Such specific characteristics are: distancing from the military-political conflict, differential perception of the occupation government’s violation acts and the Soviet regime (with the examples of wanton violence, Holocaust acts, military attacks and call to military duty of misfit population), victims determination considering a view of the the traditional society world (judgments regarding collaboration facts), conflict avoiding as a guarantee of peace. A special place belongs to the land as an element of peasants’ perception of the world. It is reflected in the active calls to business activity subject even under war conditions. The author delineated the area for potential further studying of the South Ukrainian historical memory regarding the events of the XX century as well as for specific methods elaboration.

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Published
2020-12-27
How to Cite
Irioglu, Y. (2020). THE TERM «WAR» AS A SOUTH-UKRAINIAN PEASANTRY’S ORAL HISTORY CONSTRUCTION. Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 2(54). Retrieved from https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/914