Oral History Seminar on Decollectivization in Ukraine
March 1, 2008 | Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv
On March 1, 2008, a second seminar of the new PCUH project "Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine: Rural Experiences and Perspectives", supported financially by St. Thomas More College, was held in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. This project is a new research initiative of PCUH, coordinated by Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, who is overseeing its work while spending her sabbatical in Ukraine this academic year (2007-08). The project involves 15 oral historians from 10 geographic regions of Ukraine. During its first phase (2007-08) the project aims to record 140 autobiographic interviews with former collective farm members. The first methodological seminar was organized by Dr. Khanenko-Friesen in Kyiv on December 26, 2007. For more information on the project and its activities, please see the Oral History Program.
