Announcing: From the Coup to the Commonwealth, An Inside Look at Life in Contemporary Russia by Daniel B. Clendenin, currently a visiting professor of Christian studies at Moscow State University. $10.99.  Chapters on economics, politics, and Christianity offer insightful observations on what never changes in Russia, and what, at present, changes almost daily.  Clendenin presently is completing a book on Orthodoxy from an Evangelical Christian perspective.  The International Institute for Christian Studies (Box 12147, Overland Park, KS 66282-2147) will forward mail to the author.  To order From the Coup to the Commonwealth contact:

Baker Book House
Box 6287
 Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
 Tel:  (800) 877-2665; (616) 676-9185
 Fax:  (616) 676-9573

Papers from the most recent annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1992, include:  "Muslims and Communists Vie for Power in Tajikistan," Iraj Bashiri; and "The Russian Orthodox Church in the Post-Communist CIS," Dimitri Pospielovsky.  Available for $4 each.  Write:

Matt Oja, AAASS
Jordan Quad/Acacia
 125 Panama St., Standford,
 CA 94305-4130
tel: (415) 723-9668
 fax: (415) 725-7737.

An October 1992 report, "Afghanistan and Post-Soviet Central Asia:  Prospects for Political Evolution and the Role of Islam," includes the following observations:

• "The most powerful potential for major near-term instability (except in Tajikistan) seems to lie in future relations between the new states of Central Asia and Russia, including the danger of conflict not only with the Russian ethnic minorities living in each of them, but also over economic and military matters."

• • "The diminution of the CIS will cause a gradual shift by the states of Central Asia toward closer relations with Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan."  The 42-page study is available at no charge from:

United States Institute of Peace
1550 M St. NW, #700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel:  (202) 457-1700
Fax:  (202) 429-6063

Friends of Turkey (Box 3098, Grand Junction, CO 81502; tel:  (303) 434-1942; fax:  (303) 434-1461) will provide interested Christian workers with complimentary video copies of Campus Crusade's "Jesus Film" in Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chiwash, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uzbek.  Request either PAL-VHS (Europe) or NTSC-VHS (North America).

"Faith Under Fire" is a well-crafted video production designed to help teachers and students understand the life of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and Hungary.  The bound library edition includes a videocassette, a 32-page instructional guide, resource documents, and a transcript of the video text.  Copies are available for $29.95 plus $4 postage and handling.
Contact:

Faith Under Fire
 Box 68618
Indianapolis, IN 46268
Tel:  (800) 762-2189
 Fax:  (317) 297-2998

Valuable "Meeting Reports" and "Occasional Papers" are available at no cost from:

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
 Suite 704, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20024-2518
tel:  (202) 287-3400
 fax:  (202) 287-3772.

Sample titles from the past year include:  "Reporting on Religion in Russia," by Dimitrii Radyshevskii, reporter, Moscow News; and "Independent Research Centers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Former USSR (in Russian)," by Aleksei Titkov, director, The Epokha Center for Humanities Research, Moscow.  Simply write the Kennan Institute to be added to the mailing list.

The Institute of Evangelism at Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center has underwritten a Russian translation of its "Evangelistic Preaching" study course.  The 181-page workbook and 90-minute cassette tape are available for $2.00 from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, but only through the Moscow office:

Moscow 12360 Russia
 Vozrozhdeniye 92
 39 Marodnogo Opolchenya 2
 Tel:  011-7095-194-4867
Fax:  011-7502-192-9751

The Russian cassette includes sample evangelistic sermons by Russian-Canadian evangelist Viktor Hamm and Russian-American evangelist Earl Poysti.  The English version of "Evangelistic Preaching," including 50 sample audiotape sermons by 38 representative preachers, is available for $49.95 from:

 The Grason Company
 Box 1240
 Minneapolis, MN 55440-1240
  Tel:  (612) 333-0725
  Fax:  (612) 335-1289

The Institute of Evangelism will complete the Russian translation of a second study course on "Follow-Up and Disciplemaking" by April 1993.  Contact:

Institute of Evangelism
 Billy Graham Center
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL 60187-5593
 Tel:  (708) 752-5904Fax:  (708) 752-5916

"If you leave it in a car, don't expect to see it again.  Car thieves are so fast that they can enter a car, remove a radio and disappear in 30 seconds." So reads one of many warnings highlighted in Host & Home's "Theft Guard:  The Ten Top Theft Techniques and How to Avoid Them," available for $3 and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.  Among this travel agency's other useful publications:  "The Art of Being a Guest in the (Former) Soviet Union" (34pp), $5.00, postage included; "Train Life:  Idiosyncracies of Russian Train Travel," $3.00 and self-addressed, stamped envelope; and the Host & Home Newsletter-$5.00 per year, quarterly (current events and travel tips).  Contact:

Host & Home International
 2445 Park Ave.
 Minneapolis, MN 55404
 Tel:  (612) 871-0596

Resources, East-West Church & Ministry Report, 1 (Spring 1993), 13-14.

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