This study focuses on the first group targeted in the genocide
known as the Holodomor: Ukrainian intelligentsia, the "brain of the
nation," using the words of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term
genocide and enshrined it in international law. The study's author
examines complex and devastating effects of the Holodomor on
Ukrainian society during the 1920-1930s. Members of intelligentsia
had individual and professional responsibilities. They resisted,
but eventually they were forced to serve the Soviet regime.
Ukrainian intelligentsia were virtually wiped out, most of its
writers and a third of its teachers. The remaining cadres faced a
choice without a choice if they wanted to survive. The author
analyzes how and why this process occurred and what role
intellectuals, especially teachers, played in shaping, contesting,
and inculcating history. Crucially, the author challenges Western
perceptions of the all-Union famine that was allegedly caused by ad
hoc collectivization policies, highlighting the intentional nature
of the famine as a tool of genocide, persecution, and prosecution
of the nationally conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia, clergy, and
grain growers. The author demonstrates the continuity between
Stalinist and neo-Stalinist attempts to prevent the crystallization
of the nation and subvert Ukraine from within by non-lethal and
lethal means.
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