A historian of the Holodomor’s mechanisms and memory
Vasyl Marochko is a Ukrainian historian whose work examines the countryside of the 1920s and 1930s and the Holodomor. He treats the famine not as an abstract disaster but as the outcome of state policies combining grain requisitioning with control over rural society. His calculation that blacklisting covered 252 of the Ukrainian SSR’s 405 districts shows the scale at which food deprivation and administrative isolation were imposed on peasants.
Career Timeline
- 1981–1995Postgraduate student and researcher, Institute of History of Ukraine
- 1985Earned a candidate of historical sciences degree with a dissertation on the Soviet way of life in Ukraine’s collective-farm countryside
- 1996Defended a doctoral dissertation on Ukrainian peasant cooperatives
- 1996Head of the Association of Holodomor Researchers in Ukraine
- 2008–2015Head of the Association of Holodomor Researchers in Ukraine
- 2013–Professor of Ukrainian history
- 2022Leading researcher, Holodomor Research Institute, National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide