"[I] SIMPLY WANTED FREEDOM -- THAT IS ALL ... ": OCCUPATION OF A VILLAGE SLOBOD? IN CHERNIHIV REGION THROUGH THE EYES OF AN EYEWITNESS (May 2022).

Autor: LYTVYN, Kateryna
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Zdroj: Ukrainian Historical Journal / Ukraïnsʹkij Ìstoričnij Žurnal; 2023, Issue 1, p36-50, 15p
Abstrakt: Th e goal of the publication is to reveal testimonies of Chernihiv resident. On February 24th, 2022, for the sake of his life, he took a decision to go to the village where he was born. He had a hope to avoid meeting "the liberators" because of the absence of important infrastructure objects in a rural area. Instead, he found himself under occupation (March 5--30, 2022). To achieve the set goals, the method of interviewing is according to a specially elaborated questionnaire. Th e scientific novelty is to introduce to the scientific field new oral history sources about the strategies of survival of the civil population that found themselves amid combat actions and occupation of a settlement Sloboda of Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region. Conclusions. Collected testimonies comprise an important segment of a source base of research on the Russo-Ukrainian war, practices of everyday life, and the strategies of survival of Ukrainians in conditions of occupation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index