³the incomplete grandiosity of R ussia ²

[Olga Meerson]

Unrealized, possibly. Grandiosity, no. Grandeur. Or greatness. Velichie is NOT a compromised word. In order for the oxymoron to obtain, the words have to retain their respective connotations: the latter, positive, the former, undercutting. But what is important about nesostoiavsheesia is also that it is about something interrupted in time--as if it were almost achieved but in the end, something went wrong. Hence the irony. So I still prefer "aborted grandeur". Plus, then the irony may convey, in English, a little of the sense of turning tables, from Russian nationalists' expression, to Russian nationalism itself.
o.m.

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