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MAPPING THE HOLODOMOR USING GIS TECHNOLOGIES: THE MODULE «TESTIMONIES» (MAPA PROJECT)

Tetiana Boriak

PhD in history, associate professor, researcher, Faculty of History, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7472-0014

E-mail: tetiana.boriak@fulbrightmail.org

Keywords: GIS, Holodomor 1932–1933, Holodomor eye-witnesses, MAPA Project, Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University), oral history

Abstract

Harvard Project MAPA began to be created in the beginning of 2010s as a resource for representation of statistical (demographic, economic) data. Later the project was broadened to inclusion of Holodomor oral history. The goal of the article is to reveal with the help of statistical methods of Holodomor oral history in the database, located on a spacial map in the module «Testimonies» of the MAPA Project. Methods: cartography, classification and generalization. The author selects five thematic rubrics: confiscation of food and livestock; cannibalism; survival strategies; resistance; feeding in the collective farms. The researcher concludes that there were similar processes during the Holodomor in various regions of UkrSSR

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Published

2023-05-31

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