2008 Articles

The Present State of Ukrainian Historiography on the Holodomor and Prospects for Its Development

Grynevych, Liudmyla

The question of the Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 will remain at the center of heated social and political debate in Ukraine for some time to come. This is a matter not only of deeply traumatized memories and a wholly understandable yearning to smash the wall of silence built up over the decades by the Communist regime about this terrible human catastrophe. The significance of the Holodomor issue lies in the fact that the manner of its perception allows one to clarify Ukraine’s place in a temporal matrix of “past—present—future,” to be aware of the importance of safeguarding the state independence of Ukraine, as well as her professing to democratic values and to the fact that there is no alternative to a European path for her development.