Natalia Shlikhta "Ukrainian" as "Non-Orthodox": How Greek Catholics Were "Reunited" with the Russian Orthodox Church, 1940s - 1960s Natalia Shlikhta - Associate Professor, Chair of the History Department at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (Kyiv, Ukraine), nshlikhta@gmail.com Drawing upon archival, published, and oral sources as well as recent studies on the correlation between religion and nationality, the paper argues that formal "reunification" of the Greek Catholics with the Russian Orthodox Church has become a successful "subaltern strategy", ensuring the survival of the Greek Catholic Church through the Soviet period. The article demonstrates that the "Church within the Church", coming into existence as a result of "reunification", was for decades preserving its separate identity within the Russian Orthodox Church. The "Church within the Church" did not oppose directly the regime's assimilation policy while positioned itself as a Ukrainian and therefore as a non-Orthodox (because a non-Russian) and even as a non-Soviet. Concrete research issues are examined within a wider context of the survival of the Church in the Soviet state. Keywords: Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Church within the Church, national Church, communist (Soviet) regime, reunification, ecclesiastical nationalism. Введение "УНИАТСКАЯ проблема", которую сталинское руководство взялось во что бы то ни стало (и с помощью Московского патриархата) решить сразу же по окончании Второй мировой войны, была далеко не единственным вызовом национального для Москвы. Ранее такими вызовами было существование Украин- стр. 208ской автокефальной православной церкви (как образца 1921 г., так и образца 1942 г.) а также существование Украинской автономной церкви во главе с архиепископом Алексием (Громадским), которая, обосновывая свои автономные права, ссылалась на Положение об Украинском экзархате от 1921 года. Значительно усложнившаяся в национальном плане (главным образ ... Читать далее