Tatyana K. Nikolskaya
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25807/22225064_2024_78_54
Abstract. The article examines the genesis of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Reformation movement in Russia. The author examines the initial period of the Reformation
movement and classifi es it as an oppositional form of Catacomb Protestantism. In the
1920s, under the pressure from the state authorities, the SDA ministers decided to permit
the participation of the SDA members in compulsory military service as armed militray.
This decision caused a split among the believers. Participants in the Reform movement
refused military service and any compromises with state authorities. In 1989, the leadership
of the offi cial SDA Church in the USSR recognised their resolution on military service as
erroneous, yet the schism had not been overcome.
Keywords: Seventh-Day Adventists, Reformation movement, Catacomb Protestantism,
G. A. Ostwald, P. I. Manzhura, V. A. Shelkov
