“Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

HREC organized the panel “Images of ‘the Enemy’ and the National Interpretation of De-Kulakization and the Holodomor in Ukraine (1920s-1950s)” at a conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Lviv at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Liudmyla Hrynevych discussed “Mechanisms of Mass Killings: Constructing the ‘Image of the Enemy’ in Soviet Political Caricature (late 1920s—early 1930s),” examining codes imbedded in Soviet caricatures of the “kulak,” the “Petliurite” and the priest as an enemy. 

Bohdan Klid, Director of Research for HREC, spoke on “Collectivization and the Holodomor in Ukrainian Émigré Memoirs and Testimonies of the late 1940s-early 1950s.” 

In her paper “Lost Voices: The Holodomor in the First Years of the Cold War,” Olga Andriewsky, Professor of History at Trent University, discussed the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a research project based on 705 interviews with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.

Marta Baziuk, Executive Director of HREC, chaired the panel.