A historian of state and society in Soviet Ukraine
Hennadii Yefimenko is a Ukrainian historian of the political and social history of Soviet Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century. He analyzed post-Holodomor rural resettlement as two waves, linking the state’s economic need to restore grain production with the large-scale return of settlers. His work treats population movement not as a simple story of ethnic change, but as a question in which rural labour and state rule were intertwined.
Career Timeline
- 1989–1994Studied history at the Luhansk state pedagogical institute
- 1993–1997History teacher at a secondary school in Markivka
- 1997–2000Postgraduate study at the Institute of History of Ukraine
- 2001Defended a candidate dissertation on the VKP(b)'s national-cultural policy toward Soviet Ukraine, 1932–1938
- 2000–현재Researcher in the 1920s–1930s Ukrainian history department at the Institute of History of Ukraine
- 2013Published a district-level study systematizing data on the 1933–1934 resettlements in the post-famine years
- 2014–현재Joined the public history project Likbez