Stalinist Terror and the End of Ukrainization (1922–1939)
The suppression of the national revival in the USSR: the resolution of the Central Committee of the VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars of 14 December 1932, signed by Stalin and Molotov, declared that "Ukrainization was carried out mechanically" and ordered "to immediately transfer in the North Caucasus the record-keeping of the soviet and cooperative bodies of the 'Ukrainized' districts, as well as all published newspapers and journals, from the Ukrainian language to Russian"[1]; the annihilation of most Ukrainian writers of the 1920s-1930s went down in history as the "Executed Renaissance"[2]; the resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the VKP(b) of 13 March 1938 No. 324 ordered "to introduce the teaching of the Russian language as a subject of study in the schools of the national republics and regions from September 1, 1938"[3].
Actors
Instruments Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| S0008 | Government | 1 |
| S0017 | Secret Police and Security Services | 1 |
Procedures Carried Out
The targeted physical annihilation of the national cultural elite. The official turn was sealed by the resolution of the Central Committee of the VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars "On Grain Procurements in Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and the Western Region" of 14 December 1932, signed by Stalin and Molotov: Ukrainization was declared to have been carried out "mechanically," which, in the resolution's own words, "made it easier for bourgeois-nationalist elements, Petliurites and the like to create their legal covers, their counter-revolutionary cells and organizations"[1]. The term "Executed Renaissance" denotes precisely "the repressive policy of communist Moscow aimed at the physical destruction of the Ukrainian intellectual elite of the 1920s–30s (more broadly – of the entire nationally conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia) and the tabooing of its creative achievements"[2].
The compulsory introduction of the metropole's language into schools: the resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the VKP(b) of 13 March 1938 No. 324 "On the Compulsory Study of the Russian Language in the Schools of the National Republics and Regions" ordered "to introduce the teaching of the Russian language as a subject of study in the schools of the national republics and regions from September 1, 1938" - from the 2nd grade in all non-Russian primary schools and from the 3rd grade in incomplete secondary and secondary schools[3].