The Behavioral Strategies of the Commissioners of the Pryluky District During the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in the «Pravda Pryluchchyny»

Abstract

The article aims to research the informational potential of the «Pravda Pryluchchyny» as a source to the behavioral strategies of commissioners of Pryluky district suring the Holodomor of 1932–1933. The research methodology includes the combination of number of  historical methods: comparative, source studies, contextual analyses, structural and functional analyses. The scientific novelty. The article is a pioneer research for the  problem of the existential choice of the commissioners n the level of some district. Conclusions. «Pravda Pryluchchyny» contain the information about activity of commissioners related to the all aspects from the lists of commissioners to the court decisions aimed to punish them for active and passive resistance to the Holodomor policy. The balance of the articles about auspicious commisioner’s practices for the authority and the keys of ignoring the authority demands show that the great part of the commissioners of the Pryluky district didn’t want to take part in the grain procurement or tried to slow the formation on the village the circumstance which were inconsistent with life. At the some time the local authority had no facts which could to balance the critique the destructive behavioral strategies of the commissioners in the district newspaper. «Pravda Pryluchchyny» demonstrated the existential choice of the commissioners directed to the implementation of the authority decisions on the base of the materials regarding the pharisaical campaign against the distortion of «socialist legality». It leads to research the different kind of resistance in another districts and to correct the historiographiсal notions related to the real trends in among the commissioners.