Artists in the Propaganda Campaigns of the Authorities in the Villages During the Holodomor

• In Event: Memory, Narratives, and Information Warfare: Sociocultural and Historical Dimensions of the Holodomor

Abstract

Olga Ryabchenko focuses on the forced mobilisations of artists to the villages during the Holodomor. She points at the tasks imposed on them by the state, their relations with the villagers, and their forms of resistance to the mobilisations. The researcher concludes that such mobilisations served to stigmatise peasants and those who disagreed with the Soviet government's policies as well as to distort the memory of these events.

Author

• Olga Ryabchenko, U of Cambridge (UK)