Kontsur-Karabinovych N. The Lviv Union in 1946 in antiunion policy of Soviet Totalitarian Regime.

The thesis is a complex historic research in which on the basis of involving a wide range of archives and published sources is made system analysis of antiunion activity of soviet authority organs and organs of national security, directed to the abolishment of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) on the territory of West Ukraine during 1939 - 1949. The historiographic basis is the approaches of contemporary Ukrainian research workers of Greek - Catholic Church History such as I. Andrukhiv, B. Botsyurkiv, V. Voinalovych, M. Gaikovskiy, O. Lysenko, V. Marchuk, V. Pashchenko, O. Surmach, who established a new approach of explaining this problem. The dissertation defines character, peculiarities and main tendencies of soviet state policy towards UGCC during the period under investigation, concerning statements of soviet researchers about its antinational activity during WWII. The attempts and events of the church authority directed to preserving of independent church organization under the conditions of reign of two totalitarian regimes are shown.