Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

of the membership. There was also much suffer- ing. Who suffered more and how is hard to measure. But this antireligious policy also had positive effects. We now turn to an examination of how this policy affected major aspects of the life of the evangelicals. i Notes to Chapter 5 1. Jacques Barzun, Darwin, Marx, Wagner (New York: Doubleday, 1958), pp. 37,170. > 2. Bratsky Listok, 78-8/71 (AS 880). For the next several chapters in particular I will be relying heavily on Samizdat sources. Large portions of Baptist Sa- mizdat for the period 1961-66 have been printed in English in Michael Bourdeaux, Religious Ferment in Russia (London: Macmillan, 1968). The most complete collec- tion of sa Samizdat is at Keston College. Since much of the Baptist Samizdat was printed in Radio Liberty's Arkhiv Samizdata (Vols. 14, 15, 16, and 19), L will cite - relevant archival numbers (AS) because these are readily accessible in major li- raries. S ; : ' 8. Fletcher, A Study in Survival, passim. , a oe a Harry Willetts, “De-opiating the Masses,” Problems of Communism, 6/- > p. 6 5. William C. Fletcher, ‘Protestant Influences ori the Outlook of the Soviet Citizen Today,” in Fletcher and A: J. Strover, eds., Religion and the Search for New Ideals in the USSR (New York: Praeger, 1967), pp. 75-81. In 1976, Party Chairman Brezhnev reported that 9% of the population (23.5 million) were party members. 6. The opening paragraphs were a detailed. complaint about how the churches and sects were using all means possible to expand and strengthen their in- fluence in the population. O religii i tserkvi. Sbornik dokumentov (Moscow: Politizdat, 1965), pp. 71-77. oe 7. One hundred and nineteen titles and 1,944,000 copies. Struve, p. 278. ____ 8. Luchterhandt’s closely reasoned arguments (Der Sowjetstaat, pp. 120-25) are convincing. ; ; 9. Georg van Rauch, pp. 417-50. 10. Luchterhandt, pp. 133-34. Il. I have developed this argument at greater length in my “Religious paler and: Modernization” in Dennis Dunn, ed., Religion and Moderniza- _ 12. An excellent analytical survey is Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, “The Shaping of Soviet Religious Policy,” Problems of Communism, May-June 1973, pp. 37-51. 18. Struve, pp. 267-89. ars : 14. Introduced in the 1964-65 school year. A. Avtorkhanov, “New Assault on Religion,” Problems of the Peoples of the USSR, No. 21, Spring 1964, pp. 12-15. 154 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il 15.. “Legislative Discrimination Against Believers in the USSR,” in Michael Bourdeaux, ed., et al., Religious Liberty in the Soviet Union (Keston, Kent: Keston College, 1976), p. 38. 16. First referred to in Shafarevich’s Samizdat study: Zakonodatel’stvo o re- ligioznykh kul’ takh, p. 66f.; the text was printed in Kuroedov and Pankratova, eds., Zakonodatel’ stvo o religioznykh kul’ takh (Moscow, 1971), pp. 108-109. Although a. restricted publication, a copy was le