Evangel'skoe Dvizhenie V Rossii

V knige issleduetsya evangel'skoe dvizhenie v Rossii. V 1860-kh gg. na yuge Rossii poyavlyayutsya pervye baptisty, a neskol'ko pozdnee v Peterburge - evangel'skie khristiane. V 1884 g. sozdayetsya Soyuz russkikh baptistov, v 1909 g. - Vserossiyskiy soyuz evangel'skikh khristian. Oba soyuza postoyanno ispytyvali pritesneniya so storony tsarskoy vlasti. Pervoe desyatiletie sovetskoy vlasti vydalos' dlya nikh otnositel'no spokoynym. Odnako vskore v strane nachinayutsya massovye politicheskie repressii, v khode kotorykh postradali mnogie veruyushchie. V gody voyny dlya kontrolya za veruyushchimi so storony gosudarstva organizuetsya Soyuz evangel'skikh khristian-baptistov (Soyuz EKhB), k kotoromu zatem prisoedinilas' chast' pyatidesyatnikov i bratskikh mennonitov. S nachala 1960- kh gg. usilivaetsya administrativnaya bor'ba s religiey, chto privelo k raskolu v Soyuze EKhB. Na rubezhe 1980-1990-kh gg. Soyuz EKhB perezhil glubokie peremeny, ego pokinuli pyatidesyatniki i bratskie mennonity. Segodnya v Rossiyskom soyuze EKhB proyavlyayutsya tendentsii, kharakternye dlya mirovogo protestantizma. Kniga prednaznachena dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya problemami rasprostraneniya protestantizma v Rossii.