Радянське законодавство як складова технологій Голодомору-геноциду 1932–1933 років (на прикладі Півдня України)
Soviet LegislaƟ on as a Component of the Technologies of the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932–1933 (on the Example of Southern Ukraine)

Summary/Abstract: The article pays att ention to a topic insuffi ciently covered in the scientifi c literature – the analysis of legal acts of the USSR and the USSR of the late 1920s – early 1930s and the legal assessment of the actions of the authorities in relation to the citizens of the USSR, which led to the Holodomor of 1932–1933. Their study and analysis allow us to reveal the degree of violation of Soviet laws by the Soviet government itself, the forms of repression against the civilian population and the use of genocide technology. The focus is on the technologies of genocide identifi ed by Lemkin and the analysis of the practices of leading historians and jurists regarding the justifi cation of the genocidal nature of the famine of 1932–1933. Using the example of specifi c events that took place in the South of Ukraine, the mechanism of committ ing actions that can be classifi ed as genocide is investigated. The application of an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of the problem involves the study of legal norms that guided the activities of the Soviet authorities and the identifi cation of those that had signs of a crime against the Ukrainian people. To show how a social phenomenon – the famine of 1932–1933 – turned into a tool of deliberate murder, of which more than 3.9 million people in Ukraine became victims, the authors focused on the complex of legislative and regulatory acts and the practice of their application in the Ukrainian SSR as components of genocide technologies.

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