Natalia Shlikhta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6573949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalia Shlikhta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Shlikhta |
| SIGNATURE | SHLIKHTA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6767-4657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Claiming religious freedom in Soviet Ukraine
The article focuses on the petitioning campaign by Orthodox believers from Chernihiv, which began in 1962, to reclaim the Holy Trinity Church, closed during Khrushchev’s anti-religious campaign. Religious activists wrote hundreds of letters with thousands of signatures and made dozens of visits to those they saw as ‘the authorities’, responsible for deciding the fate of their churches. These included primarily local party and state officials in C…
On Bishop-Agents, Documents of Soviet Security Services, and a Comprehensive Approach to Studying The Church in the Soviet State
Review: Roman Skakun. The NKVD-MGB-KGB agency in the Orthodox episcopate in Ukraine (1939–1964): formation, functions, and behavior models. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2025. 360 pp.This review article examines a monograph by Lviv historian Roman Skakun, published by the Ukrainian Catholic University Press in 2025. The monograph, whose title promises a shocking exposé of Soviet secret agents within the Orthodox episcopate in the 194…
Is Soviet History worth doing and why
This text-reflection is about the appropriateness and importance of studying Soviet history, the impetus for writing which was the work on the conference volume “Soviet ‘I’ and Soviet ‘We’ between Ideology and Reality.”The author shares the reservations that arose in her, as well as in other Soviet researchers, with the beginning of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war; she writes about the challenges they faced. A look back at the history of the e…
Postsoviet “ambivalence of consciousness” of the Ukrainian youth (based on the poll “Soviet past and its impact upon the life of contemporary youth”)
In September – November 2021, the project team “Soviet Past: (Re)thinking of History” conducted an online-poll for school youth of 14-18 year-old under the common title “Soviet Past and Its Impact upon the Life of Contemporary Youth.” This was one of the first polls focused on the views and understandings of the youngest Ukrainian citizens.This article examines the poll results within a broader context of ongoing discussions about the impact of t…
Sources for the history of the Church in postwar Ukraine
The article examines major groups of sources for the study of the Church “under communism” from the perspective of historical anthropology. The characteristic is based on the author’s own research into the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and a Greek-Catholic community, forcefully “reunited” with it, in postwar Soviet Ukraine from the mid-1940s – early 1970s. The author also briefly characterizes major archival holdings for these sources. T…
How to Establish an “Anti-Soviet Organization”? History of the Keston Institute and a Letter of Orthodox Believers from Pochaev Monastery
Greek Catholic’–‘Orthodox’–‘Soviet’
Greek Catholic’–‘Orthodox’–‘Soviet’
How to Establish an “Anti-Soviet Organization”? History of the Keston Institute and a Letter of Orthodox Believers from Pochaev Monastery
Sources for the history of the Church in postwar Ukraine
The article examines major groups of sources for the study of the Church “under communism” from the perspective of historical anthropology. The characteristic is based on the author’s own research into the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and a Greek-Catholic community, forcefully “reunited” with it, in postwar Soviet Ukraine from the mid-1940s – early 1970s. The author also briefly characterizes major archival holdings for these sources. T…
Postsoviet “ambivalence of consciousness” of the Ukrainian youth (based on the poll “Soviet past and its impact upon the life of contemporary youth”)
In September – November 2021, the project team “Soviet Past: (Re)thinking of History” conducted an online-poll for school youth of 14-18 year-old under the common title “Soviet Past and Its Impact upon the Life of Contemporary Youth.” This was one of the first polls focused on the views and understandings of the youngest Ukrainian citizens.This article examines the poll results within a broader context of ongoing discussions about the impact of t…
Is Soviet History worth doing and why
This text-reflection is about the appropriateness and importance of studying Soviet history, the impetus for writing which was the work on the conference volume “Soviet ‘I’ and Soviet ‘We’ between Ideology and Reality.”The author shares the reservations that arose in her, as well as in other Soviet researchers, with the beginning of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war; she writes about the challenges they faced. A look back at the history of the e…
On Bishop-Agents, Documents of Soviet Security Services, and a Comprehensive Approach to Studying The Church in the Soviet State
Review: Roman Skakun. The NKVD-MGB-KGB agency in the Orthodox episcopate in Ukraine (1939–1964): formation, functions, and behavior models. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2025. 360 pp.This review article examines a monograph by Lviv historian Roman Skakun, published by the Ukrainian Catholic University Press in 2025. The monograph, whose title promises a shocking exposé of Soviet secret agents within the Orthodox episcopate in the 194…
Claiming religious freedom in Soviet Ukraine
The article focuses on the petitioning campaign by Orthodox believers from Chernihiv, which began in 1962, to reclaim the Holy Trinity Church, closed during Khrushchev’s anti-religious campaign. Religious activists wrote hundreds of letters with thousands of signatures and made dozens of visits to those they saw as ‘the authorities’, responsible for deciding the fate of their churches. These included primarily local party and state officials in C…
Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Ukrainian (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 work)