Establishment of Soviet rule

Soviet writers have prepared much material describing the achievements of the Communist-led government in its transformation of Galician society. The admini­strative structure of the three oblasts that cover most of former Galicia has been outlined in great detail in a handbook covering the whole Ukrainian SSR,^{[597] [598] and statistics for some of the oblasts have been published as well.[599] Several collections of documents have also been devoted to all or part of the Soviet period.[600]}

The best general Soviet descriptions of the post-1945 period are found in the volumes on the L’viv, Ivano-Frankivs’k, and Ternopil’ oblasts that are part of the twenty-six-volume history of cities and oblasts in the Ukrainian SSR.

As for the Greek Catholic church, the official proceedings of its liquidation (March 8-10, 1946) have been published,²³ while more recently Serhii Dany- lenko has written two editions of a historical chronicle, which attempts to show how during the twentieth century, the church, in cooperation with Polish land­lords, Ukrainian bourgeois-nationalists, and German fascists, had been a source of intrigue in Galicia, and how after 1945 it supposedly continued from centers in the West its efforts to undermine the achievements of the Soviet Ukrainian homeland.²⁴ The innumerable arrests, life-long imprisonments, and death of many clergy and faithful, including the last metropolitan of L’viv, Cardinal losyf

19 I.P.

20 A.I. Hliadkivs’ka and T.H. Sokolovs’ka, “Kul’turna revoliutsiia v SRSR ³ kul’turne budivnytstvo v zakhidnykh oblastiakh Ukrainy,” 300 rokiv vozz" iednannia Ukrai'ny z Rosiieiu (L’viv 1954), pp. 260 - 279; O.K. Zuban’, “Rozvytok narodnol osvity na L’vivshchyni za roky Radians’koi vlady,” Naukovi zapysky L'vivs’koho politekhnichnoho instytutu, XLVII: Seriia suspil'nykh nauk, no. 1 (L’viv 1957); I.la. Zabokryts’kyi, “Rozvytok narodnol osvity na Ternopil’shchyni za roky radians’koi vlady,’’ Naukovi zapysky Kremenets' koho pedahohichnoho instytutu, III (Òåãïîð³Ã 1957); H.S. Davydova and L.A. Ivanenko, “Braters’ka dopomoha narodiv Radians’koho Soiuzu u vidbudovi ³ rozvytky vyshchol shkoly v zakhidnykh oblastiakh URSR (1939-1950 rr.),” Visnyk LDU: Seriia istorychna, no. 10 (L’viv 1974), pp. 28-45.

21 Narysy istori'i I’vivs'koi' oblasnoi partiino'i orhanizatsil, 2nd rev. ed. (L’viv: Kameniar 1969); Fedor F. Cherniavskii, Po puti sotsializma: deiatel’nost’ kommunisticheskoi partii po ukrepleniiu rukovodiashchei roll rabochego klassa pri postroenii osnov sotsializma v zapadnykh oblastiakh Ukrainskoi SSR (1939-1950) (L’viv: Vishcha shkola 1978).

22 Roman Szporluk, “West Ukraine and West Belorussia,” Soviet Studies, XXXI, 1 (Glasgow 1979), pp. 76-98.

23 Diiannia soboru hreko-katolyts’ koi' tserkvy 8-10 bereznia 1946 r. u L'vovi (L’viv: Presidium of the Synod 1946).

24 S.T. Danylenko, Dorohoiu han’by ³ zrady: istorychna khronika (Kiev: Naukova dumka 1970), 2nd rev. ed. (1972). A particularly negative description of supposed contacts between the Greek Catholic church and the Germans during World War II has been published by the Soviets in English: K. Dmytruk, In Holy Robes: The Truth About the Contacts Between the Hierarchy of the Uniate Church and the Nazi Aggressors (Kiev: Ukraina Society 1978).

Slipyi (b. 1892), who served eighteen years in Soviet concentration camps before being released and allowed to go to Rome in 1963-all these developments are outlined in a collection of documents and in other works published in the West.^[604]