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Religion, church, and state in the post-communist era: The case of Ukraine (with special references to Orthodoxy and human rights issues)

From: Brigham Young University Law Review  |  Date: 1/1/2002  |  Author: Yelensky, Victor

I. RELIGION,, CHURCH, AND STATE IN UKRAINE ON THE EVE OF THE FALL OF COMMUNISM

A. Communist Religious Policy

Up to the beginning of Gorbachev's reforms in Ukraine,1 there were over six thousand officially functioning religious communities (one-third of the religious organizations in the Soviet Union). This number included four thousand Orthodox parishes (65% of the religious communities in Ukraine), more than eleven hundred communities of Evangelical Christian-Baptists, about one hundred ...

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