Word: levitin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial of Alexei Smirnov was beginning. On May 12, I went to Moscow. Smirnov would be tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...
Intellectuals are converting, and long dormant theological debates are reviving on such matters as whether to replace Old Church Slavonic with modern Russian in the liturgy. According to Anatoli Levitin-Krasnov, a Soviet exile who writes on religious affairs, the new vigor in the Orthodox Church is due to "widespread disillusionment with Marxism" among the young. Others believe that the rediscovery of Orthodoxy, complete with icons and ancient liturgical music, like a revival of interest in the nation's pre-revolutionary religious philosophers, is part of a new concern for Russia's historical culture. The best-known proponent...