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Бюллетень совета родственников узников евангельских христиан-баптистов, № 33, 1978

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Совет родственников узников евангельских христиан-баптистов

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1978

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Description source: STC database. A human rights religious bulletin dealing with the prosecution of Evangelical Christian-Baptists (an association of baptists churches, who were unwilling to accept the rules of official registration). The periodical was issued by a Council of Relatives of the Prisoners, an organization that was collecting and disseminating information about abuses of believers as well as offering help to families of those imprisoned. At first the council was issuing "Cherzvychainye soobchenia" (Emergency news) that from 1971 took the form of a bulletin. The bulletin was first issued bimonthly, than monthly, and published by the "Khristianin" publishing house. Like other Baptist periodicals the bulletin was first hectographed and from 1983 printed. The publication of the Bulletin was discontinued in 1987 due to a transformation in the Council of Relatives. The imprint on the title page suggests that the periodical was issued in Moscow; however, since the Khristianin publishing house was located in several towns of the USSR, and the head of the Council Lidia Vins was living in Kiev, Moscow might be a fictional place of publication, meant to divert attention from the real location of both the printing press and the editorial board. The presentation of the title page varies. Starting from 1974 no. 13, the issue number is presented in Arabic numerals rather than Roman. An additional presentation statement on a separate page is added starting from 1974 no. 16 ("Да придет пред лицо Твое стенание узника" Пс. 78:11.). A drawn frame is added to the title page starting from 1974 no. 14. Issues 1971 no. 1, 1972 no. 7, 1973 no. 12, and 1975 no. 27 are illustrated with photographs. Title page and table of contents page (if present) are not numbered, though they are sometimes included in the pagination. Each issue usually starts with a welcome word from the editors, sometimes dedicated to a holiday, and has several sections dealing with various forms of religious persecution in the Soviet Union. The titles of the sections in the bulletin are of two kinds: some give a generic name for the pieces in the section (for ex. Prison letters), while the others provide a sort of moral conclusion the readers are expected to draw from reading the material (for example, An Orphan is deprived of relatives. Her grief is limitless). While the former sections usually have several items, the latter are genearally limited to one. This particular copy that I have uploaded is a hectograph of a manuscript. The original has two copies of pp. 57 and 58; I have scanned and uploaded only one copy of those.

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Open Society Archives (Hungary)

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Zubkovskaya Olga, Fri, 2009.May.08 10:52