1. The specialized atheistic journals which appeared in these years were: Science and Religion (Nauka i religiia), a mass Znanie Society monthly (from 1959); its Ukrainian counterpart, The Militant Atheist (Voiovnychyi ateist, 1960), later renamed Man and World (Liudyna i svit); the Yearbook of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, vols I–VII (1957–64), and Problems of History of Religion and Atheism (1950–64, an irregular miscellany) — both published by the Academy of Sciences; both were superseded in 1966 by the similarly irregular Problems of Scientific Atheism (Voprosy nauchnovo ateizma), published by the Institute of Scientific Atheism attached to the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU Central Committee, but, in contrast to the meagre circulation figures of its predecessors, Vop. nauch. at. reached over 24 000 per issue by the late 1970s, falling to 22 500 by 1985. See, L. Andreev, B. Evdokimov, etc., ‘Naychnyi ateizm za 50 let’, Voprosy filosofii, no. 12 (1967).
2. There are plenty of documents to show that thousands of believers signed petitions begging for the reopening of a church and their requests were never granted. The most famous case is that of the city of Gorky which has only three small churches on the outskirts serving a population of 1.5 million. Nearly 2000 people have been fighting since 1969 for the reopening of five churches in five inner districts of the city without success. See this and other cases in, Documents of the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers' rights in the USSR (San Francisco: Washington Research Samizdat Reprints, vv. 1-12, 1979-80)
3. also: Religion in Communist Lands (Keston College, Keston, England) vol. 6, no. 1 (1978) p. 45
4. vol. 7, no. 4 (1979) pp. 258-61
5. vol. 8, no. 2 (1980) p. 13. The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate has been reporting the reopening and even building of at least 19 Orthodox churches in the period between 1977 and 1982