Abstract

In the 20­s of the last century there were attempts of various strata of Ukrainian society in returning of national signs to the Church organization. The relationship between the Soviet state and the Orthodox Church has caused a great interest among both national and foreign researchers. In these latter days considerably increased the interest of scientists to the problem of Church­state relations in Ukraine. Therefore there was a need to explore the Soviet legislation in the first decades of the Bolsheviks stay in power, which is directly concerned and affected the state­Church relations in Ukraine. One of the most important tools of the Bolshevik state was Soviet law which had intended to carry out a revolution in the sphere of state­Church relations. The first legislative acts of the Soviet power blew up the social and economic base of the Church. Soviet law was declared on the separation of Church from state and defined specific measures to implement this legislation in life. For the Soviet state all tools of the separation became an important stage in removing the Church from the sphere of economic and political life of the society. Formed by the Soviet regime legislation on separation of Church and state was aimed at the formation of a rather wide range of legal relationships, defined variety objective of these legal relations, various preventive, regulatory, enforcement activities and the different methods of legal regulation.