³the incomplete grandiosity of Russia²

[Peed, Michael]

Thanks a lot.  Very helpful.


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On 2/26/10 12:39 PM, "Olga Meerson" <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU> wrote:

> My ear remembers an expression "nesostoiavsheesia velichie" (несостоявшееся
> величие)". Ironically, when I checked now on line, all the contexts were about
> some nation of Eastern Europe--Polish, Hungarian, or Czech. The sites, of
> course, were all Russian nationalist! But this may mean that Russian
> nationalists have begrudged someone for a prior application of the expression
> to their own empire--or that the expression referring to Russia, itself was a
> form of such begrudged verbal recycling, parodial, polemical and whatnot.
> 
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