petty bourgeois--how old?

[Jules Levin]

On 5/10/2012 3:58 PM, Ellen Elias-Bursac wrote:
> For its English-language usage, the Online Etymology Dictionary says:
> petit bourgeois "conventional middle-class" (1853, used by Charlotte 
> Brontë earlier than by Marx or Engels; petty bourgeois, however, is 
> attested from 1850).
I apologize for not making myself clear.  Of course I am only interested 
in Russian, not in English usage.
Jules Levin



>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:ameliede at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     How old is the phrase "melkiy burzhua/burzhuy"?
>     If used in the 19th Century, would it have been used as an
>     official class or category, or only in the
>     rhetorical style of certain circles?
>     Jules Levin
>     Los Angeles
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