Short answers, pulled from the story.
Michael Bourdeaux spent a single year in Moscow during the 1950s. He arrived to find only 41 Russian Orthodox Churches still functioning out of the 1,600 that existed before the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Michael Bourdeaux founded the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism at Chislehurst in 1969 alongside Sir John Lawrence. They received help from Leonard Schapiro and Peter Reddaway, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.
The enterprise changed its name to the Keston Institute because it was not a college in the Oxford sense. This shift marked a transition from a local educational project to a broader research charity based in England.
Since 2007 the Keston Institute archive and library have been under the care of the Keston Center for Religion Politics and Society at Baylor University. This facility is located in Waco Texas.
Michael Bourdeaux retired from Keston in 1999 after guiding the organization through significant geopolitical changes. Xenia Dennen currently serves as chairman of the Keston Institute continuing the mission established by its founder.