Overview

This map visualizes archival data on blacklists (Ukrainian: чорні дошки / Russian: черные доски), showing a range of administrative and residential units – from entire districts to individual farming households – that were placed on a blacklist at some point in 1932 or 1933.

Blacklisting – or boycotting – districts meant curtailing the supply of consumer goods until certain policies were deemed to have been executed to a higher standard. In the case of collective farms, villages, and smaller units, placement on a blacklist meant even more severe penalties.

-Simple hatching indicates entire blacklisted districts.
-Red dots indicate blacklisted villages and village councils within given districts.
-Green dots indicate blacklisted collectivized farms within given districts.
-Orange dots indicate blacklisted state farms and enterprises within given districts.
-Blue dots indicate blacklisted co-operative associations within given districts.
-Brown dots indicate blacklisted individual farming households within given districts.

The purple boundary lines indicate the oblast boundaries of the October 25, 1933 administrative division of Ukraine into seven oblasts and the Moldavian Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (Moldavia/Moldova).

Note that the placement of dots on this image are not geographically accurate and merely indicate presence somewhere in a given district.

Sources

The data production for this map was commissioned by the HURI Mapa: Digital Atlas of Ukraine Project and was conducted by Dr. Heorhiy Papakin of the Institute of History of Ukraine.