Grossman: VSE TECHET: poznala & uznala

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

Many thanks - as always, I have learned a great deal of importance even from
messages I have not been able to act on.

There clearly is considerable depth of meaning in 'poznala' (and the
subsequent 'poznavanie'), and I think this is best revealed not through
elevated vocabulary but through being as simple as possible.  So I now have
this:

The name of Stalin is inscribed for all eternity in the history of Russia.

Looking at Stalin, Post-revolutionary Russia knew herself.

The 28 volumes of Lenin’s Collected Works – speeches, reports, programmes,
economic and philosophical studies – did not help Russia to know herself and
her fate.  The result of combining Russian ways of life and Western-style
revolution was a more than Babylonian chaos.

Всего доброго,

Роберт


   Имя Сталина навечно вписано в историю России.
   Послереволюционная Россия, вглядываясь в Сталина, познала себя.
   Двадцать  восемь  томов  ленинских  сочинений - речей, докладов, программ
экономических   и  философских  исследований  - не  послужили  самопознанию
Россией  себя,  своей судьбы.  Хаос,  превышающий  вавилонский, был вызван
смешением западной революции с русским строем развития и жизни.


> Dear Robert,
in this case it seems to be more than allusion, rather a citation
> of the
Greek formula gnothi seauton,
> widely
used<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself>in Russian. The
> same
source as the title "Vse techet" - "Panta rhei".

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