title: Orthodox churches, nation-building and forced migration in Ukraine
abstract: This chapter discusses the most painful religious and political problem facing Ukraine at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries has been the issue of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the associated schism in the ranks of Orthodox Christians. Neither the state nor society could have been prepared for such large-scale internal migration; Ukraine enjoyed a surprisingly long peaceful period between the Second World War and 2014. The revolution power