Holodomor and early modern Moskovite Strategies of the “Deportation of Elites” and “Burnt Earnt”: a Comparative

The article is devoted to research of the correlation between the mechanism of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 on the one side and the previous Muscovite expansionist strategies related to the integration of the Russian imperia on the other. The aim is to examine the coherence of the early modern Muscovite practices “deportation of elites” and “burnt earth” with the approaches to the organization of the Holodomor. The conceptual strategy of the research bases on the historicism principle, contextual analysis and comparative methods. The scientific novelty. The article is a pioneer research of the above-mentioned problem. The main results of the research. It was figured out that the authority strategies directed to create in the Ukrainian village the conditions which are incompatible with life were not exclusive invention of the Stalin`s regime. These strategies have a old roots in the early modern age and organically continued the traditional practices , transformed to the circumstances of the first half of the twentieth century. In fact the activity of the Stalin`s regime regarding the create of Holodomor only finalized approaches which were previously approbated by Russian imperial elites during the creation of the Russian imperia. The deportation of many peasant in the course of the Holodomor genetically connected with deportation the elites inherent the Muscovy from the fifteenth century. In the Ukraine the Muscovite tsar began to use this approach after the Pereyaslav Council of 1654. The burgers of the some West Ukrainian towns could become victims of the deportation. The real deportations of Cossack officers Muscovy carried out in Ukraine in the second half of the seventeenth century. It is traceable the succession between the practices of Early Modern age and Holodomor in the field of the involvement the representatives of the local population to the legitimation of the deportation. Some elements of Peter I strategies of the “burnt earth”, used in 1708, are precursors the actions directed to the killing by famine in1932–1933. The problem of the millstone and non sanctioned by authority grinding of grain was similarly interpreted by Moscow at the beginning of the eighteenth century and during the Holodomor. The results of the research open the perspective to study the connection between other Muscovite strategies. Keywords: Holodomor, genocide, Russian expansion, strategies of the “deportation of elites” and “burnt earth”, succession.