@article{Chuchalin_2019, title={Kyiv Eparchy in the Context of Transforming the Political and Legal Status of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine during 1920-1930}, volume={1}, url={https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/181}, abstractNote={<p>The article characterizes the status of Kyiv eparchy as a church administrative unit of the Russian Orthodox Church during the interwar period. It also justifies the effects after the introduction of Soviet anti-church legislation and atheisation of society, which undermined the social and economic framework of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and broke the centuries-old state-church relations.</p> <p>Soviet legislation is an important tool of Bolshevik authorities for a revolutionary transformation of state-church relations. The Soviet authorities’ introduction of restrictions on the rights of religious people and religious organizations deprived the Church of its influence on public life in the country and legalized the secular nature of the state’s policy. The lack of dialogue with the clergy in the early years of the Soviet regime was one of the reasons for intensified contradictions in the relations between the Orthodox Church and the state.</p> <p>The campaigns for elimination of holy powers, confiscation of church property, establishment of anti-religious propaganda organizations, persecution of religious associations, closure of temples, conversion or destruction of religious buildings, initiation of repressions against the clergy, deprivation of their electoral rights caused a split in the religious environment and negatively affected the culture and the identity of the Ukrainian people, as well as consciousness and spirituality of society. The idea of the country’s quick transformation into an atheistic society justified the cruelty against priests, bishops and clergy of various denominations.</p> <p>Under the conditions of the new Soviet legislation, all church administrative units, in particular eparchies, found themselves in a rather difficult situation, and the administration and clergy of Kyiv eparchy – at the heart of sociopolitical transformations of that period.</p&gt;}, number={52}, journal={Zaporizhzhia Historical Review}, author={ChuchalinО.}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={176-183} }