'Melting Down' of Ukrainian Material Culture in the Early 1930s

• In Event: Old Ways Everlasting: Reassessing the Results of Soviet Modernization in Ukraine

Abstract

This paper explores the transformation process (literally "melting down") of Ukrainian material culture in the early 1930s and during the Holodomor. By analysing the practices of famine survival, state expropriation of property, and mass looting, this paper will illustrate the impact of famine and state policies on the enormous destruction of material culture.

Author

• Iryna Skubii, U of Melbourne (Australia)