History as a Narrative of the People: The Maniak Collection as a Source for the Social and Cultural History of the Holodomor

The Maniak Collection icomprises written accounts about the 1932–33 famine, submitted by members of the general public in late 1988–89 in response to a first public call in Ukraine to contribute personal recollections to a “people’s memorial” to the 1932–33 famine. The collection is named after Volodymyr Maniak who, along with his spouse and co-editor, Lidiia Kovalenko-Maniak, was instrumental in gathering the accounts and spearheading the publication of the ground-breaking memorial book 33-ii: Holod: Narodna Knyha-Memorial (1991).