LEGALIZATION OF UKRAINIAN GRECO-CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Journal Title: Актуальні питання гуманітарних наук: Міжвузівський збірник наукових праць молодих вчених Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету - Year 2018, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
The collapse of the Soviet Union and large-scale geopolitical transformations in the post-Soviet space did not go far beyond the humanitarian component of society, including historical science. The last, which for a long time was under strict Soviet censorship, gradually began the process of updating and cleaning up ideological clichés. The range of histo- riography expanded to the least studied or distorted by the Soviet historiography of the topics. These include the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which has not lost interest among historians of the Russian Federation. In the early 90’s, Russian historical science began the path of post-Soviet development. However, this path was closely intertwined with the scientific paradigm of the Soviet era, as well as the political situation in the Russian Federation after 1991, in particular, in 2000. The latter, led by the political elite, continued to develop the ideas of imperialism. Striking evidence of this will be the words of President Vladimir Putin that the collapse of the USSR became “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century”. So far, official Soviet historiography perceives Ukrainian national construction in the context of the imperial worldview. Similarly, from this side is perceived the formation of Ukrainian national-social institutions. Because of this, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, whose representatives at the end of the 80’s acted on the public scene of the Ukrainian SSR as a powerful national front, are subject to extreme criticism. The United Galician intelligentsia, together with illegal Greek Catholic priests and bishops, supported by emigration, organized massive waves of resistance against the totalitarian system. Ukrainian Greek Catholic elite and clergy, against which persecution was announced in the 1940s and 1980s, and also repressions were able to revive. The article deals with post-Soviet Russian historiography about the Greek-Catholic problem in the USSR, as well as the process of legalization of the Greek Catholic Church in the 1980s. The goal set forth by the author of the article is an attempt to show the peculiarity of the approach of contemporary Russian historians to the coverage of the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the struggle of its faithful for the return of its legal status in USSR, the assessment of the role of the UGCC in the political processes of the 1980s, and others.
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Taras PSHENYCHNYY
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