The Activism of Soviet Pentecostals in the 1960s–1980s
Year: 2023

The article describes the Pentecostal movement in the USSR. The main attention is paid to the late Soviet period, when various forms of activism began to take shape in the evangelical community. Chronologically, the activism of religious communities coincided with the emergence of other activist communities that formed the Soviet dissident movement. The author examines in detail the three most prominent components of Pentecostal activism: the social (help and support of members of their communit