concept
European free-thinking
free-thinking
also: свободомыслие
Skepticism toward religious and political orthodoxy; under Imperial Russian censorship, casual talk of such subjects with a stranger could draw police attention.
Reading notes
- To Speak or to Be Silent? §6 European free-thinking
Свободомыслие -- freethinking, i.e. skepticism toward religious and political orthodoxy; under the Russian Empire's censorship regime, casual talk of such subjects with a stranger was exactly the kind of loose speech that could draw police attention, as it does here.