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Many many moons ago I read the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn and vaguely I
remember his analysis on the psychological reason and impact of the huge
palaces and other buildings erected during the Tsarist and Bolsheviks eras .From shetchy
memory I think he posited that these buildings with their magnificence were erected with
purpose of overawing the populace to the point where they [the people] saw themselves
as miniatures unable to resist the status quo.
Does anyone remember this analysis ? The book is out of my library and my grandson
has stumped me with a school essay on Solzhenitsyn's analysis of Tsarist palaces.
Thanks for any imput.
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Sorry, can't help you on your specific question re Solzhenitsyn's analysis. But that sounds a likely general explanation, given what a vast and almost ungovernably diverse place that vast slab of the world had always been - when you consider it's not far short of twice the area of the USA (if you trust the CIA...!) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rs.html
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I am unfamiliar with that analysis.
...purpose of overawing the populace to the point where they [the people] saw themselves as miniatures unable to resist the status quo.
It's difficult for me to accept this *base reasoning... and certainly/evidently not true... sad how this arrogance perpetuates itself even into modern times.
The definition of 'pride' has enough problems without it embedding itself into materialism.
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