Starodub A. Jurisdictional policy of the Russian Orthodox Church during 1917 - 1921: Ukrainian aspect

The thesis to be defended concerns the study of Russian Orthodox Church's jurisdictional policy in the period of Civil War and the National Revolutions and its Ukrainian aspect in particular. A number of factors that influenced the formation of general principles of Russian Orthodox Church's jurisdictional policy in the entire Russian Empire are analysed in this paper, which's complied of original archive sources. An attempt has been made to reconstruct a number of cases related to the problem of Orthodox Church's status in the Ukraine as it been taken up at the All-Russian of 1917-1918 and All-Ukrainian of 1918 Church Counsils. Special attention has been paid to the specific of the "Ukrainian policy's" evolution of ROC in the common Orthodox context, in particula in the context of contradictions between the Moscow Patriarchate the Ecumenical Patriarchate