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  Some Protestant Churches, most notably the Anglicans/Episcopalians and the Lutherans, were party to the same research, and largely restored their liturgies on the same 5th century model as Catholics.
  
  Orthodoxy will eventually do the same, but that may take a long time. The reasons are political. In the early phases of the scholarship the led to Western reforms, Russian Orthodox scholars were on the cutting edge--it was a multinational, ecumenical effort, and a few Greek Orthodox scholars made important contributions.
  
  Unfortunately, the communist revolution in Russia decimated Russian liturgical scholarship, and the Greek were under the Ottoman yoke until 1921. Political repression stifles scholarship.
  
  However, a very few Western scholars did put together the development of the Byzantine liturgy through time, and it is clear that on the same INTERNAL PRINCIPLES that liturgy will also require restoration.