Ruban V. Moods and Behavior of Podillya Peasantry at the end of 1920-th-beginning 1930-th.

The thesis is devoted to the all-round study of moods and behavior of Podilliya peasantry at the end of 1920-th - beginning 1930-th. Based on the analysis of a wide range of archival documents, memoirs and statistical data and existing historiography the regional peculiarities of socio- economic development, their influence on moods of the rural inhabitants has been highlighted. It is proved that the embodiment of a policy of forcing total collectivization led to mass mockery over peasants by the local active members, partial- soviet workers, which had formed peasants’ disapproval of a Bolshevik’s variant of collectivization. At the same time it had formed both remonstrative and confirmative forms of behavior. It is pointed out, that using methods of a state terror, the communist government changed considerably the ethnographical map of a region, created atmosphere of fever and humility to the soviet power. In the thesis the classification and the typology of moods and behavior of the Podilliya’s peasants by the forms of their manifestation have been suggested – from passive contemplation to radical remonstrative forms - armed uprising. The motion of a typical peasants uprising, the evolution of political and socio- economic demands have been analyzed. It has been highlighted that practically in all forms of protests women played one of the main roles. A wide range of surviving practices during the Holodomor of 1932-1933 has been analyzed: from selling individual farms and moving to towns to forced taking collective farms’ property and thefts. Still, they didn’t save from starving hundreds of thousands of Podillya’s peasants.