Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

d. The third section (formerly the first section) was entitled “The Christian Voice in Defence of Peace.” Usually this contained short commu- niqués and reports on meetings of the Christian Peace Conference; in this issue it also included a short article on children as war sufferers. This issue included an article under the more infrequent category: “From the History of the Evangelical-Baptist Movement.” Pages 48-59 were devoted to “Music and Singing,” a section introduced in 1978. Many readers turn first to the final section “Local News’ and read the earlier didactic articles at leisure. In many churches Bratskii Vestnik is read over the loudspeaker during the half hour before the service begins. The local news section in this issue reported on the recent plenary meeting of the AUCECB and the resultant letter to all the churches, congratulated 426 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il senior presbyter FE. N. Raevskii on his 75th birthday, and then reported local events on the last fourteen pages, including several full-page black and white photographs, These short local entries reported ordinations, retire- ments, baptisms, church dedications, regional presbyter conferences, and the odd problem. The journal, like all Soviet publications, cannot be published without state approval. At present an eight-member editorial board consisting of presidium members (with Bychkov as responsible editor) assume final responsibility. The de facto full-time editor is Vitali G. Kulikov, whose title is “responsible secretary.” His predecessor was I. I. Motorin (1944-71), who had been a trained journalist. Kulikov became “responsible secretary’’ in the reorganization following Karev’s death and Motorin’s retirement.* Kulikov has some higher education, presumably in literature and poetry, for which he displays an appreciation. He sings and preaches in the Moscow church, also traveling infrequently, but most of the material is sent in by contributors. He also participates as teacher in the correspondence course. In 1974 Gabriel Pavlenko had received enthusiastic support from fellow delegates when he presented a detailed program to improve the ministry of the “second pulpit” —music and singing. The presidium later appointed a special committee who were given the task to improve the musical repertoire and to undertake measures to deepen the qualification of local musicians.2° In 1978 Bratskii Vestnik introduced a special section on “Music and Singing,” which now not only included the publication of new songs (with notation) as formerly, but also a series of theoretical articles and announcements. More attention was devoted to music at the regional seminars for presbyters and other church workers. Shortly before the 1979 Congress the AUCECB announced that a special course of studies in music had been introduced in the correspondence course. This