Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

erences which Fletcher had organized. When funding ceased Fletcher became head of Slavic studies at the University of Kansas while one of his associates, Michael Bourdeaux, managed to establish a similar center in London. (d) Religion in Communist-Dominated Areas (475 Riverside Drive, 10027 New York). Paul Anderson had personally witnessed the Russian Revolution while working as secretary of the Russian Student Christian Movement. During the twenties and thirties he became one of the earliest BF a ey oe ee Assessment of East European Mission Societies 393 eats on Soviet religion while working closely with the Russian Student oe scree in Paris. In 1961 the National Council of Churches in asked him to provide them with a translati i ignifi ase ieaanitd slation service of significant gion in communist-dominated areas. This : translati ae prreace respected though its circulation remained small a coe a i ane When Anderson retired, the research center reorganized ee sae independent of the NCC but still closely associated with it aa os - as ye Anderson as editor of Religion in Communist. tated Areas (RCDA). This journal continu i | es to provide Engli translations of materials from Eastern Europe, although Hruby’s editoti ce ing betrays a more emotional anti-communism. a - Ae Keston College (Heathfield Road, Keston, Kent, England) : ‘ pa cee: together with Soviet experts Sir John Lawrence and : se away managed to organize the Centre for the Study of Religion ommunism in 1970. Initially this consisted of Bourdeaux and a ce but the institution grew, was renamed Keston College in 1978 ces ge ey Bi nee significant and respected of the research if es. Michael Bourdeaux and his collea . gues have produced segs ae translations of Russian Samizdat. Bourdeaux’s aie € regular information supplied by his institut ; ; i e have done more th es else to clarify the situation of evangelicals in the Soviet Union. peer is = history and philosophy than on the present aharchs uation. The large research staff maintains files on irons inthe é t all religions in th Soviet eh and Eastern Europe. Since 1973 Keston College ee se a penis Z journal, Religion in Communist Lands, and a semiweekly Kes ews Service. Recently telex services were introd : uced, A sister organi- hoe eae a ie Study of Religion under Communism, was eae and is based in California, c/o O : , pen Doors. Keston’s most valuab] service for researchers is the-com i ibli ese I prehensive bibliograph igi mizdat which appears in the periodical, ie aria ada Pee seine ° ie 2ten Hse (Bergstrasse 6, CH-8702 Zollikon-Ziirich) er the founding of Keston College, Pfarrer E Vv ized a sister institute in Ktisnacht (Ziirich) Swi nce iar pena ) Switzerland. Voss produced a j with the same name, and in 1977 i oe \ ; introduced an information servi i 1s more extensive than the British one. It has taken a ah eer ie advocacy stance for human right