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aked to the West in 1976. (Cf. RCL, IV, 4, 1976, . 25-84.) 17. Gerhard Simon, Church State and Opposition in the USSR (London: C. Hurst & Company, 1974), p. 73; Struve, p. 203, notes that by 1964, fifty-seven had been closed. 18. Quoted in Luchterhandt, p. 148. 19. All were printed in Kuroedov & Pankratova, which was available only to state officials. 20. Ibid. for sample statutes for the commissions. 21. AS 44] (dated October 1, 1970); cf. AS 617. 22. Luchterhandt, p. 124. : __ 28, Ibid., p. 131. For a list of church closures see Roland Gaucher, Opposition in the USSR 1917-1967 (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969); p. 472. 24. Struve, p. 296f. 25. Ibid., p. 319. . 26. AST79 and 794, . 27. For background on Osipov, see Bourdeaux, Opium of the People, pp. 109- 22; Struve notes that out of about 200 apostates, only thirty have been identified by name, p. 320. , ee 33 28. Full text in Struve, pp. 368-71. : rea ae 29. An article in Sovetskaia Belorussia, February 18, 1960, complained that of- ficials in charge of controlling the activities of churchmen, “have in some cases be- come virtually their assistants.” V. A. Kuroedov’(1906- ) was born’ in the Gorki region, graduated from the Gorki Teacher's College in 1980, and taught since 1927. He joined the party in 1936, held.leading party and government posts in the Gorki region, then became science editor of the national party newspaper, Sovetskaia Rossiia (biographical data given in Kuroedov, Church and Religion in the USSR [Moscow, 1979]); Luchterhandt, citing Kommunist Nr. 18, 1954, p. 53, identified him as party secretary in Sverdlovsk (p. 281). 30. Struve, p. 313f.; cf. Fletcher, Nikolai, p. 188ff. 31. L. N. Mitrokhin, Baptizm (2nd ed.; Moscow, 1974), p. 80; cf. Religion in Communist Dominated Areas (RCDA), XIII, 1974, pp. 75-76 for full text in English. 82. RCDA, XIU, 1974, p. 75. : 88. BV, 1/48, p. 7; 1/99, p. 5. st 34, The Initsiationiki cited Senior Présbyter Veliseichik to Belorussian churches along similar lines (AS 770, p. 53) and then analyzed the new statutes on the basis of known Soviet legislation, concluding that one does not oppose the law by opposing the statutes. Western scholars, often not aware of the secret legislation, accepted the Initsiationiki logic. Luchterhandt as legal specialist, on the other hand, came to the conclusion that the Orthodox Church statute was regarded by ‘state of- ficials as having the force of law—this is certainly what Karev also meant (p. 253). ‘85. Briefly referred to at the 1963 Congress, BV, 6/63, p. 18. ~ 36. Luchterhandt, pp. 125-30. 37. Kuroedov & Pankratova, pp. 150-60; 83-97. For a detailed discussion see my article in RCL, LV, 4, 1976, 25-34. ; Ts: The Khrushchev Campaign Against Religion 155 38. The first writings of the Orthodox layman. Levitin-Krasnov. G2W, 2/75, p. 70; ory ee een . roliglous Samizdat, see also G2W 2Q73, and 2/76. , i , Which includes a total of