Author: Daria Mattingly, Department of History, University of Chichester - ResearchGate

Abstract: »The paper explores sexual violence during the 1932-1933 famine in Soviet Ukraine and is one of the first works on the topic of sexual violence during the Holodomor. Drawing on corpora of oral memory, published and unpublished archival materials, post-memory and cultural texts created during and after the Holodomor, the article establishes three major forms of sexual violence that accompanied collectivisation: sexual barter, rape, sexual torture including genital mutilation. Second, the article explores the primary tropes in the representation of sexual violence in Ukrainian literature to demonstrate the discrepancy between factual traces of sexual violence and its representation. Analysis of sexual violence provides a better understanding of victims’ experiences and reveals new avenues in this previously overlooked topic in Soviet Studies. Crucially, further study of this sexual violence contributes to the women’s history of Ukraine and the Soviet Union.« (Source: Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique)

Contents:

	What is Sexualised Violence?
		Sexual Barter
		Sexual Torture, Harassment and Mutilation
		Rape
	Sexualised violence in cultural memory
	Instrumentalised Sexualised Violence
	Conclusions

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Russia / History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) | History of Europe: History of Ukraine / Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | Famine: Famines in the Soviet Union / Holodomor | Sex and the law: Sexual violence