[4] The basic direction of his research work was history, ideology, the political role of religious sectarianism.
[5] He was a researcher of the problems of evolutionists religion, sectarianism in the period of construction of the Socialist society.
Putintsev developed a handbook "Questionnaire and instructions for the collection of information about sects", on the basis of which were held sociological.
Studies that gave a more or less complete picture of sectarian religiosity at the end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s.
The main ones are "The origin of religious feasts" (M., 1924 and 1925), "The political role of sectarianism" (M., 1927 and 1929), "The Doukhobors" (M., 1927 and 1928), "The debt bondage brotherhood of the sectarians" (M., 1931), "The political role and tactics of sects" (Moscow, 1935), "On freedom of conscience in the USSR" (Moscow, 1939).