On November 23, the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv presented a guidebook for school teachers, entitled “The Holodomor of 1932-1933 – the genocide of the Ukrainian nation.”
That’s according to the UA:PBC public broadcaster.
The publication, prepared by the Holodomor Research Institute, contains documents, photographs, statistics, and maps, covering a wide range of topics that reveal the preconditions, course, and consequences of the Holodomor.
The guidebook includes topics related to the national liberation movement of 1917-1921, mass artificial famine of 1921-1923, the policy of the Communist totalitarian regime on the eve of genocide, masterminds, executioners, and mechanism of the Holodomor, the causes of mass artificial famine, the consequences and condemnation of crimes committed by the totalitarian regime .
Svitlana Markova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief of the Holodomor Genocide Research Institute, noted that 14 leading Ukrainian scholars, researchers, and teachers had worked on the new piece.
“In fact, we have presented the scientific research our scientists have been preparing for more than a decade. This is sublimated knowledge that we want to convey to the Ukrainian civil society,” she said.
Copies were sent to higher education facilities, schools, and colleges. In total, 500 copies have been printed.
Inna Shuhaliova, a researcher at the Holodomor Research Institute, said that a 10th grade textbook, which covers one of the central topics of the Holodomor study, genocide, cannot address the full range of this period’s events.
Therefore, the Institute of Research initiated the inclusion in the content of the new guidebook of such fundamental topics as the creation of a “new man,” indoctrination of youths and children in the 1920s; a discourse on civil society, which examines how traditional Ukrainian society and mentality that had been nurtured and cultivated for centuries was being destroyed, how the Communist totalitarian regime oppressed the younger generation of Ukrainians. We tried to teach these topics in a way that would be of interest to both teachers and students. That’s why the guidebook is full of illustrations and maps,” she said.
