CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN ENSURING ITS DEVELOPMENT

The monograph of historians of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Uzhgorod National University and Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas highlights the ethno-cultural role of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the social life of Ukraine in the XX century. The church-religious transformations in the western region are analyzed on the base of the little-known source material. Particular attention is paid to the life of church structures after the restoration of independent Ukraine.