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basis for unity emphasized by Jakob Fast at a recent meeting of Men- nonites with the presidium (BV, 3/76, pp. 67-74). 294 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II 42. The first such German-language service was announced in Novosibirsk in 1958 with the explanation: “This will serve to make meetings of Germans in apart- ments unnecessary and to prevent violation of the statutes and directives of the AUCKCEB, to observe discipline in the church, and to relieve the Russian service” (BV, 4/58, p. 75), 43, BV, 4/76, p. 74, 44, Joint meetings were held in 1967, 1973, 1976, and 1978. The latest a peal (BY, 4/78, Pp. 65-66) was published in German, which spokesmen referred to hone: fully as the beginning of a German-language periodical. Jakob Fast, who had also served as assistant senior presbyter for Western Siberia, resigned that post in August 1976 to devote himself full time to the Novosibirsk church and his work on the presidium. In 1979 he was elected deputy senior presbyter for the RSFSR and at the All-Union congress in December 1979, where he was reelected to the presidium, Mennonite and German delegates requested that he move to Moscow. 45. BV, 2/77, p. 61. , 46. BV, 5/76, p. 66. 47. Krest ianinov, p. 78. : 48. BV, 6/66, p. 31; cf. 4/67, p. 42; 4/78, p. 65. 49. BV, 6/66, pp. 53, 61. 50. BV, 4/78, p. 65. Ipatov, Mennonity, p. 162, notes that following the 1964 decision to accommodate the Church Mennonites, some Mennonite Brethren joined the unregistered congregations of Baptists or sought autonomous registration. 51. Umsiedler interview data. 52. For example, in Alma-Ata, which had this status 1973-77, when it obtained full registration. 53. Mennonitische Rundschau, June 14, 1978. 54. Ipatov, p. 189f., apparently forgetting this phenomenon which he had stressed on pp. 46-47. 55. Liudynai Svit, 10/74, pp. 37-40. 56. Kuroedov and Pankratov, Zakonodatel’stvo . . ., p. 291; A. T. Moskalenko, Piatidesiatniki (2nd ed.; Moscow, 1973), p. 5; N. V. Koltsov, Kto takie piatidesiatniki (Moscow: Znanie, 1965). 57. Ernest A. Payne, Out of Great Tribulation: Baptists in the USSR (London: Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1974), p. 25. 58. The most understanding treatment of Soviet Pentecostals is Steve Durasoff, The Russian Protestants .... Michael Rowe of Keston College is currently completing what promises to be the definitive Western study of Soviet Pentecostals as a doctoral dissertation at Glasgow University. See also the relevant sections in Walter Bee ae The Pentecostals (London: SCM Press, 1972). 59. Fedorenko, Sekty, ikh vera i dela (Moscow, 1965). 60. Moskalenko, p. 72. 61. Ibid., p. 78; cf. “The Pentecostalist Movement,” Radio Liberty Research, January 31, 1975, a ten-page up-to-date survey written by a well-informed scholar. 62. BV, 1/55, p. 5. 63. BV, 5/56, p. 59. Senior presbyters from Dnepropetrovskaia, Nikolaevskaia, Vinnitskaia,