Holodomor Oral History: Resistance to Denial and Transformation of Memory

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

Abstract

Tetiana Boriak suggests analyzing information warfare that lasted for more than 50 years. Soviet state used various instruments to silence the genocide: criminal punishment till 1986, liquidation of the archives, interviews and visits to fake collective farmers, chekist supervision of foreign journalists, discredit of Holodomor survivors. Despite this methods, survivors both kept memory about the famine reflected in more than 113,000 Holodomor sources of personal origin and transformed individual memory about the famine into a collective one.

Author

• Tetiana Boriak, Vilnius U (Lithuania)