производственная тема

English translation: the industrial theme

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Russian term or phrase:производственная тема
English translation:the industrial theme
Entered by: Rachel Douglas

12:05 Oct 29, 2010
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Russian term or phrase: производственная тема
Добрый день!
Подскажите, пожалуйста, как обычно переводят (или как лучше перевести) словосочетание "производственная тема"?
В смысле "роман на производственную тему", "пьеса на производственную тему" и т.д.
Примеры таких пьес: «В списках не значился» Б. Васильева (1974 г.), «Протокол одного заседания» А. Гельмана (1976 г.)

Заранее спасибо,
Игорь.
Igor Timko
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:50
the industrial theme
Explanation:
"The industrial theme" is often used as a term in writing about Soviet literature.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,17315,23628,23670,...

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Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 06:50
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3the industrial theme
Rachel Douglas
4production novel, production play, etc.
Galina Kasatkina
4industrial novel
groszek
3factory theme
tschingite
1 +1workplace movie
Natalia Zakharova


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factory theme


Explanation:
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tschingite
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:50
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in TatarTatar
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
workplace movie


Explanation:
Не уверена, что подойдет, все же больше про офисников, наверное.

http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/knowledge/articles/2010/02/2...

Или же "a movie about work'?


Natalia Zakharova
Ukraine
Local time: 13:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Kislov: theme
1 day 4 hrs
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
production novel, production play, etc.


Explanation:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/309682

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Note added at 37 мин (2010-10-29 12:42:38 GMT)
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But with the arrival of the Five-year Plans, such metaphors became literal, particularly in that exemplary piece of Socialist Realist hardware, the production novel.

This, certainly, was art by blueprint. At its center was the "positive hero" -- so called to distinguish him from that gallery of neurotics, malingerers and web-spinners in earlier Russian fiction. Arriving at some factory or collective farm, he finds it in bad shape. The workers and poor peasants earnestly desire to build socialism. They are warm and colorful, the salt of the earth. But until the positive hero comes on the scene, they are out of luck.

The positive hero rallies the masses under the leadership of the Bolsheviks. True, they face obstacles -- perhaps even sabotage by party members of bourgeois origin. A beloved character or two may die. Yet so moved are the toilers by the correctness of the hero's line that they reach, then exceed, their quota. There is much rejoicing. By the end of the novel, the positive hero may or may not fall in love, but he will almost certainly give a speech.

Example sentence(s):
  • But with the arrival of the Five-year Plans, such metaphors became literal, particularly in that exemplary piece of Socialist Realist hardware, the production novel.
  • ...genesis of the production novel of the twenties and early thirties...

    Reference: http://books.google.ru/books?id=kvgPcmtuf5YC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA...
    Reference: http://www.mclemee.com/id90.html
Galina Kasatkina
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:50
Native speaker of: Russian
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
the industrial theme


Explanation:
"The industrial theme" is often used as a term in writing about Soviet literature.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,17315,23628,23670,...



Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 06:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 384

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
17 mins
  -> Thanks, Jack.

agree  LanaUK
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Lana.

agree  Judith Hehir
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Judith.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
industrial novel


Explanation:
see:
http://tiny.pl/hw7qj

groszek
Poland
Local time: 12:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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