Breaking Modern: Soviet Modernization and Famine in Contemporary Ego-Documents

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

Abstract

This paper draws on diaries, memoirs and post-memory of the Holodomor of the urbanites observing or facilitating the famine. The paper argues that most actors articulated the establishment of the quasi-modern society where belonging to a specific group within a newly established social hierarchy defined access to resources.

Author

• Daria Mattingly, U of Chichester (UK)