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воздействие опасных факторов в год в расчете на каждого человека
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Sep 7, 2006 21:14
17 yrs ago
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Russian term

актив (в ранний советский период)

Russian to English Other History
As in:

Только папа вывезеть зерно, картошку, снова приносять квитанцию, еще вывози. Несколько разов накладали разверску и уже нечива было вести, шестерым дитям нечего было есть, но актив тогда сказал: Забираем быков с повозкой — и забрали.

I'm also having fun trying to render the "particular" speech of my narrator...
Proposed translations (English)
3 +10 the activists
4 activists, active Party members/workers - not for grading
3 +1 only в поддержку ответа: "the activists" (the village activists)
3 the Party group, the Commies

Proposed translations

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13 mins
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the activists

Similar term was used in Belgium (where it originated): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activism

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Note added at 38 mins (2006-09-07 21:53:25 GMT)
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But the Russian wors has a more negative, or, should I say, scornful meaning to it.

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Note added at 39 mins (2006-09-07 21:53:56 GMT)
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wors = word
Peer comment(s):
agree Elina Tsitrin : "Local activists" or "rural activists". By the way, the word had absolutely no negative meaning at the time - that's how they called themselves.
42 mins
Yes, but for those who they were mistreating this was not a very pleasant word :-)
agree GaryG : well, I'd specify "the Party activists"
43 mins
Hi Gary! Long time no see :-) Thanks!
agree Sergei Tumanov : they did not necessarily belong to the Party. Just active people..//нет, он был только активно сочуствующий!
51 mins
Thank you, Sergei! I wonder if Shvonder was a party member? What an activist :-) Ну очччень активно :-)
agree Blithe : not only party, comsomol too.
1 hr
Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Blithe! А также пионеры, беспартийные и примкнувшие к ним :-)
agree Jack slep : Or "the most active members/workers"// I intended to insert Party
1 hr
Thanks, Jack! But if we mention "members", we'll have to define members of what?.Party? Komsomol? Local municipality or community? The problem is, that those activists were from everywhere, it was a mixed group.
agree Irene N
4 hrs
Спасибо, Ирина!
agree Larissa Boutrimova
5 hrs
Спасибо, Лариса!
agree Vladimir Dubisskiy : i'd say: the village activists
7 hrs
Not necesserily - they could have their leader and a couple of his mates sent to them from the city - workers, that is... Or straight from ChK.
agree Elena Iercoşan
12 hrs
Спасибо, Елена!
agree Natalie Lyssova
13 hrs
Thank you, Natalie!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks! I'll have to decide whether to footnote it or not."
13 mins

the Party group, the Commies

the Commiies group, the active group of the Communist party
Peer comment(s):
neutral Elina Tsitrin : They were not necessarily communists.
43 mins
в ту пору? Коммуняки, без вопросов
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5 hrs

activists, active Party members/workers - not for grading

I presume Deborah is still working of dekulakization, so it seems "activists," with or without "Party" would fit the given situation.

The Harvest of Sorrow
Dekulakization meant the killing, or deportation to the Arctic with their ... Then, we have the testimony of former Party activists who took part in the ...
www.ditext.com/conquest/intro.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pages - Filter

Dekulakization of America - The Process of Elimination
Dekulakization of America - The Process of Elimination ... backlash grew in scope as rural America and private property activists decided that the coalition ...
www.michaelkeller.com/news/news358.htm - 10k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Filter

Harvest of Death - 70th Anniversary of Stalin's Famine in Ukraine
Communists and brigades of so-called "activists" backed by Soviet secret ... Together with "dekulakization," a process of collectivization was under way. ...
www.freeserbia.net/Articles/2003/Death.html
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8 hrs

only в поддержку ответа: "the activists" (the village activists)

Those people were NOT (necessarily) the party members but most often the poorest members of the village community - (who have 'nothing to loose' but could gain - by taking "surplus" from others)

http://www.lebed.com/1999/art1186.htm
Но эта опасность была невелика и проявилась во всей силе только после Февральской и, особенно, после Октябрьской революции, ***дав обильный слой сельских люмпенов, из которых формировались сначала комбеды, а потом сельский актив по раскулачиванию.***
http://sputnik.mto.ru/Seans/Metod.uc/Avent/a102/a102_v5.htm

... НКГБ были задействованы около 7 тыс. дагестанцев, 3 тыс. осетин и сельский актив из русских. Немногочисленные попытки сопротивления жестоко подавлялись. ...
sputnik.mto.ru/Seans/Metod.uc/Avent/a102/a102_v5.htm
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack slep : Certainly not necessarily "party", just opportunists.
8 hrs
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