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ankratova became available only when a copy was leaked to the West in 1976. (See my article in RCL, IV, 4, 1976, pp. 24-80.) 26. Kahle, p. 269: the following biographical data was taken from my biographical card file. 7. Karey made a total of thirty-nine trips abroad, senior i for Gorki Oblast, working there for many years. He spent the war in Novosibirsk, moving to Kiev at Patkovskii’s invitation in 1946. In Kiev he was Andreev’s office manager, later becoming his deputy. Initially he also led the Kiev church when the three congregations were reduced to one. 30. BY, 5-6/61, p. 35. This is most ironic since the Baptist World Alliance has subsequently been unable to interfere in the Soviet Baptist conflict because the AUCECB always insisted that the BWA had no such mandate. 33. BV, 6/57, pp. 47-51 in which Orlov summarized his career and his ap- parently successful bout with cancer. 38. An explanation given by Alexander Karev in Private in 1969 (BWA files, December 1969), 39. For a discussion of the contradictory claims see Bourdeaux, Religious Fer- ment, pp. 2-6. 40. Lialina, pp. 42-51. For further details see below, p. 193, 41. These were: Kiev, Tula, Rostov, Krasnodar, W. Siberia and Northern nnn ‘ Dissent Begins, 1960-1965 197 42. See the handy compilation in Bourdeaux, pp. 211-29, and in Rosemary Harris & Xenia Howard-Johnston, eds., Christian Appeals from Russia (London: takhov but not D. I. Eniukov the SP for Kiev Oblast); Voroshilovgrad (A. V. Gaivo- ronski); Moldavia (D. I. Ponomarchuk); Middle yee region (G. M. Buzynin); 44. For example: Khmel nitski (E. A. Mazin); Sumi (A. M, Tesliuk); Kursk (M. I. Sorokin); Belgorod (I. D. Shavyrin); Moscow (A. N. Karpov); Kazakhstan & Central Asia (M. S. Vashchuk)., Sverdlovsk, Omsk, and the Ura Mountain region which, she remarked, were for- merly strong points of the early Baptist and Evangelical Christian movements (p. 50). 46. I. Ia. Kaliuzhnyi first served as Mitskevich’s assistant in Kiev, then when this was subdivided in 1956 he became senior presbyter for Cherkassy, temporaril also for Kirovograd. His regularly printed reports indicate close cooperation wit Moscow. In spite of the excommunication, he was elected to the AUCECB in 1966, and since 1966 he has been an assistant senior presbyter for the entire Ukraine. He retired in 1979, 47. AS 871, p. 33. They noted that during the entire previous fifteen-year pe- riod “not one sympathetic word was said by the AUCECB leadership to those suf- fering for Christ.” ' 48. I. G. Ivanov came from Moscow and personally traveled around the re- public with K. S. Veliseichik to demonstrate Moscow’ s support for him (BV, 3/58, pp. 51-52; 5-6/58, pp. 16-18). 49. AS 770, p. 53. 50. Ibid., p. 55. 51. Jacob Zhidkov called on F. R. Astakhov at his home when visiting Kiey in 1963 but Astakhov did not take part in the deliberations to which Zhidkov h 53. In 1957 they were: M. S, Vashc