Simon Frank-
lin, in The World Today (April 1988), Royal
Institute of International Affairs, 10 St. James's
Square, London, SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom.
Last June, the Soviets celebrated the millennium of Christianity in Russia, commemorating Prince Vladimir of Kiev's mass conversion of his subjects, who were baptized in the Dnieper River in 988.
As both The Economist's editors and Franklin, a fellow of Clare Col- lege, Cambridge, point out, most Soviet Christians have had little reason to celebrate...