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manship of a quality that might persuade evangelicals in other countries to take their example seriously, Perhaps that is part of the new frontier for Soviet evangelicals. Notes to Chapter 10 . Ceres in ee p 285. . Daily Study Bible: The Letters to the Galatian dE i (Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, rev. ed., 1976), p. 118. eee potas . Recently printed in English translation in RCDA, 4-9/75, p. 119. . Archives, Licht im Osten Mission, Korntal, 1976. . BL, 1-8/75. . BV, 4/75. 7. BL, 1-3/75. The publications they cited were Zakonodatel’ = tel’st - a als pack ( 1) and regime raed Vol. V, Moscow 1971. ine ; : ; ef. my article, “Who's Maki iliati ifficult?” ee on os Making Reconciliation Difficult?’ MCC 9. BV, 1/75, p. 49. Géorgi Vins claims 100,000 members at t, which i plausible in light of Soviet Soto Eical and AUCECB stalistien” eceganr 10. BL, 4-6/76; Vestnik istiny, 2/76, pp. 2-4. 11. Copy of tape recording is in the author's possession. An abbreviated report was printed in Vestnik istiny, 3-4, 1976, pp. 8-28. 12. Stepan Gerasimovich Dubovoi (born 1913) was the leader in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) when the reform movement began; later lived in Shevchenko (Odessa Oblast). Had been in hiding since October 1970; was in prison 1966-69 (his second sentence). 13. Newsline West, September 1976; BV. 2/77, p. 61. The ref ab- breviated printed report in Vestnik istiny omitted all inentian of theconflics ° if Nani vee October 1978, . Based on discussions with individuals personally acquainted with Bonda- renko, including a few siding with Kriuchkov, who atiued that Bondarenko’s vaniGy had been affronted when he was not elected a full CCECB member. __ 16. In Rostov 117 of the members had experienced arrest and fifteen-day prison sentences. Presbyter Peter D, Peters (age 34), a popular evangelist for the CCECB, was arrested and sentenced for the fourth time in January 1978 to two- aay vee pale in ne woods she disrupted. Cf. Bullsun 53/78, pp. 4-6. : ood description of prison conditions in Prisoners of Consci nce USSR (Lon 2 Amnesty International, 1975). ai as 18. See, for example, Roland Bainton’s college text, The Reformation of th Sixteenth Century (Boston: Beacon Press, 1952), and George Wile The a Reformation (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1962). _ 19. T. van Braght, Martyrs Mirror (9th ed.; Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press 1972), which has been reprinted repeatedly in German and English translations; Guy F. iene ed., Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 20. Dein Reich Komme, January 1979. A study of the Initsiativniki card file at Doe co The Movement Toward Autonomy 293 Keston College in February 1975 revealed that 147 out of 750 or 12 percent were of Mennonite origin. 21, Approximately 5,000 of the Initsiativniki have emigrated to West Germany since 1970 on the basis of a reunification of war-torn families program. The number of church lead