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to Presbyterian influence, he advocated in- fant baptism. His Molokan. followers had ado ted the label “Evangelical Chris- to persuade Deliakov in favor of believer's baptism (Steeves, pp. 2-3, 15-18, 21, 32), 81. Cf. Gerhard Simon, Konstantin Petrovit Pobedonoscev und die Kir- chenpolitik des Heiligen Sinod 1880-1905 (“Kirche im Osten,” Band 7; Gottingen: Vaden and Ruprecht, 1969), pp. 188-99, 33, Andrew Blane, “The Relations Between the Russian Protestant Sects and the State, 1900-1921” (unpublished PhD dissertation, Duke University, 1964), p. 31. Blane’s work covering the first 50 years is of high caliber and especially good on 35. Blane, pp. 46-47. A slogan printed on the cover of the union’s magazine The Christian was: “From City to City, from Town to Town, from Village to 36. Ibid., pp. 80-82. 37. V. A. Kuroedov and A. S. Pankratov (eds. ), Zakonodatel’ stvo 0 religioznykh kul’takh (Moscow: Iuridicheskaia literatura, 1971), p. 53, “This paragraph of the pany Decree became the Magna Carta of all those religious communions which itherto had not possessed full re igious liberty.” (Matthew Spinka, The Church and the Russian Reboluton [New York, 1927], p. 108. ) 38. Steeves, pp. 57-60. (Forty thousand of all sectarians received exemptions. ) 39. Steeves, 510f.; Kahl, pp. 382-421, (See below, p. 115.) 40. Kahle, pp. 442-62; Steeves, pp. 510f., 583; Blane, pp. 184f., 241. their dealing with the Baptist World Alliance shoul Beginnings and Patterns 53 4l. Steeves, pp. 117-28. 42. Ibid., p. 541, 43. Ibid., pp. 540-41, 44. Ibid. p. 595, 45, Ibid., p. 587. Ea S. Lialina, Baptizm: Iluzii i real nost’ (Moscow: Politizdat, 1977), Pp. 58-60. 47. Steeves, pp. 127-28, 48. Ibid., pp. 231-82; Kable, p, 259, 49. Steeves, p. 208; Kolarz, pp. 809-10. 50. Kahle, pp. 483-500. 51. Steeves, p. 187. 52. BV, 5/47, pp. 66-70; Kahle, p. 477. Cf. pp. 463-82 for a detailed su schools abroad where Russians studied. as well as the short-lived Bible skein provinces, . 58. Steeves, pp. 175-78, By September 1922 they had received 68 million ru- bles (about $160,000) from abroad plus clothing and fui machinery. Nonmcnibes who attended Baptist congregations received one third of the rations given to full members! 54. Quoted by Steeves, p. 59. 55. Ibid., p. 239, 56. Ibid. 57. Lialina, p. 60; her italics, 58. Ibid., pp. 60, 62-72. Many other studies could be cited, but this is the most were the greatest majority, the reason bein (according to Lialina) that during the Civil War poverty had increased there. The three Soviet class categories ated political purposes and are notably inaccurate desi nations. The term “kulak” js by now part of the English language, hence the Englis plural “kulaks,” 1944-1964 (Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck, Tenn. : Fairleigh Dickinson Universit Press, 1969), p. 73. The strength of the Durasoff book lies in its special attention to 60. Ibid. ese y eee