Issue 141 (2019)

V. Starka, PhD in History, Associate Professor

Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2019.141.9

THE DAILY LIFE OF THE PEASANTRY OF EASTERN GALICIA IN 1941-1944

The author analyzed the daily life of the rural population of the eastern Galicia during the Nazi occupation relying on archival source materials of the periodical press and the previous achievements of historians. It is that today, despite a considerable number of works on the history of the second world war, this subject has not received adequate coverage in the national historiography. The majority of researchers are turning to the study of macro-historical topics. Instead, the study of history "from below" allows historians and society to learn the mechanisms of adaptation of the ordinary people to life in difficult socio-political conditions. The peasants of Galicia with the outbreak of German-Soviet war had hoped to improve the conditions of life and their political leaders – to proclaim an independent Ukrainian State.

At the same time, the policy of the German occupiers no different from their predecessors – Bolsheviks. Farmers, deprived of political rights, pay significant taxes, performed a variety of duties while in the atmosphere of constant fear for their own lives.

At the same time, gradually adapting to the conditions of the new political regime, people have managed to establish domestic economic life, to organize their own live, to arrange training of their children, leisure activities, etc. The libation of the eastern Galicia by the Red Army meant for local residents not desired freedom but return to life in the face of Soviet totalitarian reality.

Keywords: everyday life, Eastern Galicia, peasants, Nazi occupation regime, socio-political transformations.

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