Intergenerational rupture in the village after the condemnation of collectivization "excesses"

In: Voprosy istorii: VI = Studies in history, Volume 2023, Issue 10-2, p. 108-129

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationship between representatives of the "revolutionary turning point" generation (born at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries) and "children of the revolution" generation (those whose childhood and youth fell on the 1920s - early 1930s) in the Russian village in 1930-1931. The authors show that even after the official condemnation of the "excesses" in collectivization of rural economy, Komsomol and pioneer organizations continued to turn over the generational hierarchy of the Russian village. The article describes the intergenerational conflict in the village in the early 1930s as a conflict based on the opposite values of generations.