WOMEN IN THE OUN AND UPA IN THE 1945–1950s: FUNCTIONS, CONTROL, REPRESSION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26661/Keywords:
underground, repression, discipline, everyday life, gender history, women, UPA, OUNAbstract
Purpose. The purpose of this article is to analyze the position of women in the underground structures of the OUN and UPA in 1945–1950 through the prism of the transformation of forms of struggle, internal control mechanisms, status, and disciplinary practices in the postwar underground.
Methodology. The study is based on an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods of gender history and everyday history. The source base consists of archival materials of the Soviet special services, internal documents of the OUN and UPA, as well as memoirs of participants in the liberation movement. Scientific novelty. The novelty of the article lies in shifting the focus from describing forms of women’s participation to analyzing everyday practices of control, status hierarchy, and gender-based restrictions that determined the real limits of women’s agency in the postwar underground. Women’s experience is considered as an analytical key to understanding the internal social dynamics of the liberation movement.
Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in further studies on gender history, the history of national liberation movements, and the everyday life of war, as well as in training courses and public discussions devoted to the complex social and moral dimensions of the armed underground.
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