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of the Shevchenko stained-glass window at Kiev University are also discussed. 
I t is a grim and disturbing account. 

J O H N S. RESHETAR, J R . 

University of Washington 

A S P E C T S O F R E L I G I O N I N T H E S O V I E T U N I O N , 1917-1967. Edited by 
Richard H. Marshall, Jr., Thomas E. Bird, and Andrew Q. Blane. Chicago and 
London: University of Chicago Press, 1971. xv, 489 pp. $19.75. 

The study of religion in the U S S R , not long ago the wallflower of the Soviet studies 
sisterhood, has recently been attracting many serious and resourceful suitors. The 
best sign to date of both the quantity and the quality of their attentions is the present 
volume, in which they pool their interdisciplinary talents to produce a highly 
informative and useful survey of developments concerning religion throughout the 
first half-century of Soviet rule. 

Very fittingly the book is dedicated to Paul B. Anderson, and dedicated in 
something better than the usual curt manner. A thirty-page section of the book is 
devoted to Anderson, containing first a brief appreciation of his extensive service 
both to the study of religion and to religion itself during the entire Soviet period, 
next an interesting autobiographical sketch by Anderson covering the period, and 
finally a bibliography of his published writings. 

T h e heart of the book consists of essays by seventeen scholars covering virtually 
every major aspect of the subject and every major religious group in the U S S R 
(Orthodox, Moslems, Jews, Baptists, Catholics) as well as national churches 
(Georgian, Armenian) and even minor groups such as the Mennonites and the 
animistic Siberian tribes. There is also good exploration of themes not frequently 
treated, such as Joan Delaney's essay on Soviet antireligious organizations and 
George Kline's on religious motifs in Soviet poetry and fiction. Some repetition is 
unavoidable in a volume of this sort: Khrushchev's vigorous antireligious campaign 
of 1959-64, for example, receives treatment in a number of the essays, in addition to 
being the subject of a separate essay by Donald A. Lowrie and William C. Fletcher. 
But this is not a serious fault; in fact it facilitates the use of the book for reference 
by making the chapters on the various religious groups relatively independent. 

Two other features should also be mentioned as giving the book special 
worth: an appendix containing the text of all the major laws pertaining to religion 
in the U S S R , and a selected bibliography of English-language books on religion in 
the Soviet Union. 

All in all, if some disaster should require the Library of Congress (or the 
Lenin Library, for that matter) to part with all but one of its books on religion in 
the U S S R , this is the book it should keep. 

J A M E S P. SCANLAN 

The Ohio State University 

I C O N A N D S W A S T I K A : T H E R U S S I A N O R T H O D O X C H U R C H U N D E R 
N A Z I A N D S O V I E T C O N T R O L . By Harvey Fireside. Russian Research 
Center Studies, 62. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. xx, 242 pp. 
$8.00. 

Dr. Fireside has lifted the veil from what has been the least-known period in the 
recent history of the Russian Orthodox Church—its life under the Nazi occupation