Materials of the Local Media of Kyiv Region about Acceptance the Course of Authority by Peasant during the Holodomor of 1932–1933: Manipulations and Reality

The article is devoted to investigating the specific of information Kyiv region’s local media conducive for authority cases reaction ordinary peasants grain procurement campaign 1932–1933 as a key mechanism organization Holodomor in Ukraine. research strategy based on contextual analysis different materials against broad background Holodomor, well territorial and chronological representation newspaper’s about typically similar practices peasants. focuses analyses following messages media: freewill execution over-execution plan by farmers members collective farmers; appeals execute this oblige additional plans; participation farmers, which were forced give own grain, doing brigades searching expropriation its another peasants; denunciations, peasant’s statement advantage farm system. It was argued most manipulative. so-called voluntary initiatives peasants, often declared media, actually appeared under influence authorities. empiric potential district press gives more documentary materials. Only pertaining denunciations activity reflected reality. deepen notion regarding motives measures used enable emergence media. leads investigation models peasants’ existential choice, developed various circumstances during 1932–1933.