Stereotype of Poor Peasants of Dnieper Ukraine in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Between Ideas and Reality
Journal: Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
Year: 2025

In the article, the author analyzes the transformations of the stereotype of peasant poverty of Dnieper Ukraine[1] in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries; examines the spaces of its formation and the image of the reality of peasant poverty enshrined in contemporary Ukrainian historiography; proves that this stereotype conceals both a real phenomenon and a cultural construct generated by it. The emergence of the stereotype was a social reaction to the economic conditions of peasa