Protestant women in the late Soviet era: gender, authority, and dissent
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the peak of the anti-religious campaigns under Nikita Khrushchev, \ncommunist propaganda depicted women believers as either naïve \ndupes, tricked by the clergy, or as depraved fanatics; the Protestant \n“sektantka” (female sectarian) was a particularly prominent folk-devil. \nIn fact, as this article shows, women’s position within Protestant \ncommunities was far more complex than either of these mythical \nfigures would have one believe. The authors explore four important, \nbut contested, female roles: women as leaders of worship, particularly \nin remote congregations where female believers vastly outnumbered \ntheir male counterparts; women as unofficial prophetesses, \nprimarily within Pentecostal groups; women as mothers, replenishing \ncongregations through high birth rates and commitment to their \nchildren’s religious upbringing; and women as political actors in the \ndefence of religious rights. Using a wide range of sources, which \ninclude reports written by state officials, articles in the church journal, \nletters from church members to their ecclesiastical leaders in \nMoscow, samizdat texts, and oral history accounts, the authors \nprobe women’s relationship with authority, in terms of both the \nauthority of the (male) ministry within the church, and the authority \nof the Soviet state.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it