THE POWER AND EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHRISTIANS IN THE USSR IN THE LATE FIFTIES - THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1980TH (on materials of the Penza region)
In article evolution of relationship of the Soviet state and believers - evangelical Baptist Christians in the late fifties - the first half of the 1980th at the regional level - in the Penza region is analyzed. Actions of the power for elimination of "a sectarian underground" of evangelical Baptist Christians are considered. Religious practice of the Penza evangelical Baptist Christians is characterized.