PUBLICATION OF HOLODOMOR (1932–1933) ORAL HISTORY SOURCES IN UKRAINE: ARCHEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Boriak Tetiana 
Published: November 2022

Despite huge massive of published collections of Holodomor oral sources, not much analysis is devoted exactly to archeographic aspect of publication that allows usage of this type of historical sources. The researchers mostly paid attention to content analysis of such sources. When we approach researchers who were at the same time editors of Holodomor oral history books, we can see that they focused on interviewers (who they were; what mistakes they did during field work) and the problems of writing down of narratives. For many years the authors had been working on the maps for the GIS-Atlas of the Holodomor. This project had made it possible to incorporate about 2,000 of oral history sources into the database. Much more oral history sources had been investigated for this project. Therefore, on the base of this work with this type of sources the author has managed to separate 10 groups of factors that influence final product: publication of collection of Holodomor oral history sources. Furthermore, for convenience the author divides these 10 groups into three units. For convenience – because these 10 aspects are interrelated. But for better representation of the problems such division into three units had been made. First unit includes problems tied directly with publication: absence of one united methodological center and integrated accepted recommendations. Such situation is caused by economic conditions and crisis of the humanities in 1990-s. Taking into account dual essence of oral history source, the author has suggested next two, second and third unit. Second unit is tied to a figure of a respondent (time of interview, taking into account passing away of Holodomor survivors’ generation, and traumatic experience of living through the Holodomor. The last one, third unit treats the problems of archeography of publication of oral history sources through the prism of interviewer (his/her professional background and preparation; fullness of a legend data, in particular, residence of a survivor during the famine; geographic disproportion of Holodomor oral history writing down; multiple location of archives that preserve oral history sources (in case of their transferring there at all); absence of such data for many collections of oral history sources at all. Suggested by the author specificity of archeographic culture of Holodomor oral history sources publication can be used for further preparation such collections of documents for publication and can improve their quality and widen source base of history science. Finally, the author suggests sample of collections of published Holodomor oral history sources (15 books and series of publications). Keeping in mind 10 factors analyzed above, the researcher analyzes level of archeographic culture of these books. She selects two of the latter: Holodomor oral history sources in Pereiaslav (2000) and Luhans’k (2008) area. These books, in comparison to others, could fill legends of published sources at maximum level and to compile apparatus criticus. Second edition, being compiled by a philologist, even reproduces language and dialect peculiarities of respondents.