Rewolucyjne zmiany świadomości chłopstwa ukraińskiego w okresie reżimu bolszewickiego w latach 20-tych i 30-tych XX wieku (według paradygmatu J. Scotta)

The paper focuses on the political factor of Stalin’s totalitarian regime formed in the industrial society as a means of destruction of the traditional self-consciousness of Ukrainian peasants in the 1920–30s. Basing on recent works of Ukrainian experts on rural studies, Andrew Wilson, and first and foremost the US scholar James C. Scott, the author follows four aspects of the political influence that caused a comparatively significant change of the rural inhabitants’ self-consciousness. According to the paradigm of J. Scott, the experience of implementing high modernism appeared unnatural for Ukraine’s rural areas, in particular because it ignored such an important aspect as the religiousity of people, which was able to evolve and was not bound to disappear.