Research

The Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society at Baylor University and the Keston Institute, Oxford, invite students and scholars from all over the world to conduct research on the religious, historical, social, and political dimensions of the Communist religion policy in the former Soviet Union and other Eastern and Central European countries (1917 to the present).

Housed in the Michael Bourdeaux Research Center on the third floor of the historic Carroll Library, the Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society library and archives contains materials related to religious persecution under Communist and other totalitarian regimes. The collection includes paintings, artifacts, photos, books, journals, transcripts, rare documents, and underground publications (samizdat).