
The Media in the Mechanism of Holodomor of 1932–1933s (Kyiv Regional Newspapers: case study)
Author(s) -
Ігор Якубовський
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kiïvsʹkì ìstoričnì studìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2524-0757
pISSN - 2524-0749
DOI - 10.28925/2524-0757.2021.120
Subject(s) - newspaper , ideology , context (archaeology) , political science , function (biology) , public relations , population , mechanism (biology) , politics , sociology , geography , law , epistemology , philosophy , demography , archaeology , evolutionary biology , biology
The article aims to research the role of the local media in the authorities’ Holodomor strategies in 1932–1933s within the context of the Kyiv regional newspapers. The research methodology includes the combination of number of historical methods: comparative, source studies, contextual analyses, structural and functional analyses. The article is a first attempt to investigate the function of the regional media in the field of the implementation of the authorities’ Holodomor policy. The following issues are examined: the approaches of the different echelons of the authority to the determination of the role of the regional media in the ideological and political-economical campaign on the territory of Holodomor; the regulation by the authorities of the local newspaper’s correspondents (“robsilkory”) activity; the process of the transformation of the ”robsilkory” into executors of the Holodomor policy and the responders for its realization. The regional media played a significant role in the authority’s plans in regard to the organization of the Holodomor. The function of newspapers was not only ideologically influence on the population, but also to implement the measures aimed at the formation of the mechanism of Holodomor. The content of the Kyiv regional media show that the media really functioned as a implementers of the authorities’ strategies, embodied its into the propaganda as well as practices. The media’s staff and the “robsilkors” were the active executors of the Holodomor in the lower level. It forms the basic preconditions for the reflection in the regional media the number aspects of mechanism of the Holodomor turning there media into a significance source of its tragic history.