The Rage of Famine: Social Relations among Soviet Peasantry during the Great Soviet Famine, 1930-1934.


JAIME ELIZABETH EAGERTON

 (Under the direction of Dr. Gerald D.Surh)

ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to examine issues of peasant social relations in SovietUkraine during Great Soviet Famine of the early 1930s. The goal is to show how villagesociety was affected by the conditions of famine. Also, issues of tension and cohesion among peasantry are examined in terms of how the famine manifested in the countryside. In particular, struggling for survival during the famine had a major impact on how peasantsinteracted. An important question surrounds this research: did the environment of the faminetransform the notion of a peasant “moral economy” in peasant society? This research drawsupon various primary sources, including memoirs and testimonies of survivors. Many of theoral histories are located in Congressional Testimonies of the Ukraine Famine Commission ,as well as the Oral History Project of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine