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26 June 2007 14:11

Head of the History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 Program Olesia Stasiuk Defends Her Dissertation, “The Deformation of Ukrainian Traditional Culture in the Late 1920s – Early 1930s”

June 25, 2007, expert with the Culturology Department, Head of the History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 Program Olesia Stasiuk defended her dissertation, “The Deformation of Ukrainian Traditional Culture in the Late 1920s – Early 1930s.” The thesis was supervised by Research Consultant of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Culturologic Programs, Ph.D. in History, Prof. Valentyna Borysenko.

Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko and other members of the Fund attended the event at the Kyiv National Shevchenko University.

In course of the defense, the subject of the traditional culture deformation during the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 was broached upon. The participants of the event emphasized that this question was extremely important for better understanding of the Ukrainians’ cultural evolution, while studying them from the philological, ethno-cultural, and ethno-psychological viewpoint would help to shed light upon the yet unexplored pages in Ukraine’s history.

After the defense, Mrs. Yushchenko greeted Ms. Stasiuk with obtaining her Ph.d. IN History (Ethnology specialty).

Expert with the Culturology Department, Head of the History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 Program Olesia Stasiuk has been working with the Ukraine 3000 Fund since 2005. She has organized and is carrying out the collecting of Holodomor witnesses oral history from all Ukraine’s regions, is running Ukraine’s first website on this theme, and takes part in popularizing information on Holodomor in Ukraine and abroad.

The staff of the Ukraine 3000 Fund offers its sincere greetings to Ms. Stasiuk and bids her every success in her motivating and at the same time complicated job on restoring the historical justice.

The History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 Program was launched in 2003. Its goal is informing the Ukrainians and global community on the truth about the 1932-1933 tragedy, promote creating a fundamental scholarly research base for studying various aspects of the Famine, secure conditions for giving it a political and legal appraisal on the state level and among international institutions as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.