DESTRUCTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF LIFE OF THE UKRAINIAN COUNTRYSIDE DURING THE YEARS OF ITS TOTAL GOVERNMENTALIZATION (THE END OF THE 20-ies – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 30-ies OF THE XXth CENTURY)

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Abstract

The Purpose of the Article. Taking into account the growing practical and scientific interest in the current situation in the agricultural sector of Ukraine's economic activity, especially the state agrarian policy and its history, the author of this publication outlines the purpose of its writing, which arises from the need to form conceptual ideas about radical and tragic break in the first the five years of the Stalinist dictatorship of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian peasantry with its cultural and economic outlook, and is defined by a new approach to the assessment of the theoretical and political foundations of the social development of the Ukrainian countryside at the turn of the 1920s – 1930s. The Research Methodology. Principles of science, objectivity, historicism, determinism and a systematic approach. The Research Novelty. This article is the first in the Ukrainian historiography that examines a set of basic problems of the history of the total governmentalization of the Ukrainian village during 1929 – 1934 and its results. The Conclusions. Completely studying the theoretical aspects of the issue "Destruction of the fundamental foundations of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian countryside during the years of its total governmentalization (the end of the 20-ies – the first half of the 30-ies of the XXth century)" the author of this publication concluded that socio-political development (socio-economic, socio-political, class, socio-psychological and domestic processes and phenomena) of the Ukrainian countryside under the conditions of a severe command-repressive regime led to the destruction of the natural conditions of a rural life, a break in thoughts and views of a relatively conservative peasantry foundations of a social justice and the formation of entirely new trends in the socio-psychological image of the peasant. As for the mechanisms and principles of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian peasantry during the historical period, they included an extremely wide range of methods, means of influence and pressure that combined both cultural, educational and purely violent approaches. ; The Purpose of the Article. Taking into account the growing practical and scientific interest in the current situation in the agricultural sector of Ukraine's economic activity, especially the state agrarian policy and its history, the author of this publication outlines the purpose of its writing, which arises from the need to form conceptual ideas about radical and tragic break in the first the five years of the Stalinist dictatorship of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian peasantry with its cultural and economic outlook, and is defined by a new approach to the assessment of the theoretical and political foundations of the social development of the Ukrainian countryside at the turn of the 1920s – 1930s. The Research Methodology. Principles of science, objectivity, historicism, determinism and a systematic approach. The Research Novelty. This article is the first in the Ukrainian historiography that examines a set of basic problems of the history of the total governmentalization of the Ukrainian village during 1929 – 1934 and its results. The Conclusions. Completely studying the theoretical aspects of the issue "Destruction of the fundamental foundations of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian countryside during the years of its total governmentalization (the end of the 20-ies – the first half of the 30-ies of the XXth century)" the author of this publication concluded that socio-political development (socio-economic, socio-political, class, socio-psychological and domestic processes and phenomena) of the Ukrainian countryside under the conditions of a severe command-repressive regime led to the destruction of the natural conditions of a rural life, a break in thoughts and views of a relatively conservative peasantry foundations of a social justice and the formation of entirely new trends in the socio-psychological image of the peasant. As for the mechanisms and principles of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Ukrainian peasantry during the historical period, they included an extremely wide range of methods, means of influence and pressure that combined both cultural, educational and purely violent approaches.