Humeniuk V. Everyday life of the rural population of the Ukrainian South ethnical communities (20s - first half of the 30s of the XXth century)

Scientific work is devoted to the complex and multidimensional analysis of the everyday life of the rural population of the Ukrainian South ethnical communities in the context of political, economic and sociocultural transformations of the 20s - early 30s of the XXth century. It is established that in the result of a long process of settlement, South of Ukraine was a region of co-existence and active interference of many peoples who were significantly different from each other, and had a wide range of features of the economic life, culture and way of life inherent to each of them. It is found that the community that existed among all the national minorities of the South of Ukraine acted as the basic social institution in the village, as an important interaction unit between individuals and engaged in the identity protection of ethnical communities. In comparison with men attention is drawn to the gender role of the Bulgarian, Greek, Jewish and German women in traditional families and communities in rural settlements of Steppe Ukraine. The problem of housing and living conditions of the rural population of ethnic communities of the South of Ukraine was covered. The extent and character of the use by men and women of traditional national attire. It was established that each etnopolicy had its own national cuisine, which was distinguished from others with the ways of cooking and ingredients. This material suggests that the everyday practice of management of national minorities, the rural areas of the South of Ukraine, which determined their production activity was mainly confined to the cultivation of the soil. The sanitary-epidemiological situation in the South of Ukraine and health care of the regional ethnic communities are covered. It is revealed that inter-ethnic relations in the villages of the Steppe Ukraine were marked by the exacerbation of conflict situations on ethnic grounds. We have studied the factors that influenced the formation of negative attitudes of ethnic communities to the Soviet government. We disclosed the nature of the protest behavior of national minorities of the South Ukrainian region, which was a reaction to the imposition of Communist model of social and political life. The traditional Soviet forms of South Ukrainian peasantry leisure were reviewed. The peculiarities of the religious life of the national minorities peasantry of the South of Ukraine are explored.