FOREIGN UKRAINIAN ON THE ACTIVITY OF GRECO-CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE PERIOD OF THE WESTERN UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

Authors

  • Natalia ZOLA State Higher Educational Institution “Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University”, Department of Historiography and Source Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/gal.32.170-174

Keywords:

foreign Ukrainian, Greek Catholic Church (CCC), Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR)

Abstract

The article highlights the reflection by the foreign Ukraine of the activities of the Greek Catholic Church (HCC) in the socio-political events of 1917–1921 on the western Ukrainian lands. An attempt is being made to highlight the positions of active figures of the ZUNR and the UPR on the factor of religion in the conditions of revolution. A special place is dedicated to the study of the role of the Greek-Catholic clergy in the party-political system and foreign policy of the ZUNR. The work of modern diaspora researchers on the account of ethnoconfessional processes is considered. Included are materials that familiarize with the place of the SCC in the socio-economic and cultural dimensions of the ZUNR.

In November 1918, the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) was formed on the territory of Western Ukraine. The church not only spiritually supported the organization of public life. The clergy were actively involved in the work of the authorities and military structures of the newly formed state. This topic has been properly reflected in Ukrainian historiography. Especially worthy of attention is foreign Ukrainian. Due to historical circumstances, most documents of the ZUNR period found themselves outside of Ukraine. And an objective study of the national liberation struggles of 1918–1923 in Soviet Ukraine was not possible. In such conditions, the work of the diaspora is essential for the study of the activities of the GCP during the ZUNR.

Undoubtedly the diaspora has made a significant contribution to the research of the CCC during the ZUNR. At the beginning of the twentieth century. it is the researchers of foreign countries that are scientists on the one hand, and on the other - priests, public and political figures, that is, witnesses of the era. This makes it possible to reflect this problem from the middle. It should take into account the factor of subjectivity of the author. However, emigration in this period has accumulated a lot of source and statistical material. The young generation of diaspora researchers is not limited to studying the role of SCC in the creation of the ZUNR. She embarked on working out the little-known parties of the clergy in the socio-economic and cultural sphere.

Published

2019-12-27

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