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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Does Anyone Remember? #108914 07/28/03 09:31 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11 South America C carambola OP stranger OP carambola stranger C Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 11 South America 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does Anyone Remember? #108915 07/28/03 10:31 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does Anyone Remember? #108916 07/29/03 02:44 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,810 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 458 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 15 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,852 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,944 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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