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English translation: Infighting in the Taiga

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10:03 Jan 11, 2012

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Other

Russian term or phrase: ТАЕЖНАЯ ВАНДЕЯ

This is the heading to part of a newspaper article.

Vendée in the taiga?

"Таежная Вандея" - this may be a literary reference. Can someone throw some light on what connotations this would have for the Russian reader?

The subject-matter of the article? Well, it's about rivalries between aluminium companies. Essentially, it's about attempts to gain control of the largest aluminium plant.
There is no mention of the Vendée or the taiga in the text that follows.

Dylan Edwards KudoZ activity Questions: 819 (14 open) (18 without valid answers) (29 closed without grading) Answers: 890
Local time: 04:49

English translation:Infighting in the Taiga

Explanation:
I was tempted to put "Tigers in the Taiga" but I thought that was going too far!

Erika's answer is very helpful for the context, but doesn't give you a useable translation.

Selected response from:

David Knowles
Local time: 04:49

Grading comment

Thank you, David. I used "infighting", because it seemed most appropriate here.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +3

Mutiny in Siberia

Deborah Hoffman

Siberian uprising

Vic in Belarus

connotation: severe conflict or collision

Olga Yuska

3 +2

siberian Vendée

erika rubinstein

Infighting in the Taiga

David Knowles

Summary of reference entries provided

Вандея

Yuri Dubrov

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

siberian Vendée

Explanation:
Vadim Goltsev (Author of Siberian Vendee. Fate Ataman Annenkov)
www.goodreads.com/.../4879173.Vadim_Goltse... - Diese Seite übersetzen
1 Stimme
Vadim Goltsev is the author of Siberian Vendee. Fate Ataman Annenkov (4.00 avg rating, 1 rating, 1 review, published 2009)
s review of Siberian Vendee. Fate Ataman Annenkov - Goodreads
www.goodreads.com/review/show/171149936 - Diese Seite übersetzen
Bewertung von Anton Shevtsov - 25. Mai 2011
Атаман Анненков, неизвестный большинству людей в теперешней России. В молодости (еще...
Find Records: All Siberian vendée
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Siberian vendée... view source CrossQueryResult. ⇧. Terms of Use | Privacy Statement | About | prototype historical resource. Social Networks and Archival ...

erika rubinstein
Local time: 05:49
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 16

16 mins confidence:

Infighting in the Taiga

Explanation:
I was tempted to put "Tigers in the Taiga" but I thought that was going too far!

Erika's answer is very helpful for the context, but doesn't give you a useable translation.

David Knowles
Local time: 04:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 67

Grading comment

Thank you, David. I used "infighting", because it seemed most appropriate here.

17 mins confidence:

connotation: severe conflict or collision

Explanation:
The aurthor just wanted to emphasize the severeness of conflict over the aluminium plant.

Olga Yuska
Local time: 06:49
Native speaker of:

Ukrainian,

Russian

1 hr confidence:

Siberian uprising

Explanation:
I agree with Olga.

And there is a bit of sarcasm in this title too.
Dylan Edwards, you see there was a revolt in that part of France in XVIII century, so the author meant to say that a big fight took place in Siberia over that plant. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vendée

Vic in Belarus
Local time: 06:49
Native speaker of:

Belarusian,

Russian

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Mutiny in Siberia

Explanation:
Depending on whether it works for your plot, i.e. whether something can be characterized as a "mutiny."

Alternately, Battle for X. (I'm thinking here of a chapter in Louis Nizer's My Life In Court entitled "The Battle for Loew's" about a corporate takeover battle for the Loew's theater chain)

Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 23:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Reference comments

5 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Вандея

Reference information:
Кровопролитие в Вандее. Вандейский мятеж (фр. Guerre de Vendée), иначе « Вандейская война» — вооруженное контрреволюционное выступление

Вандея — слово-символ. Это не просто одна из самых драматичных и кровавых страниц Французской революции

Вандея" имеет несколько значений. В узком смысле это слово обозначает всего лишь одну из страниц истории Французской революции XVIII в., весьма краткую, хотя наиболее драматическую и кровавую - гражданскую войну, развернувшуюся в марте-декабре 1793 г. в четырех департаментах на западе Франции, один из которых и дал этим событиям свое имя. В более широком смысле понятие "Вандея" уже давно отделилось от своего конкретного историко-географического содержания и прочно вошло в современную политическую лексику как синоним контрреволюции низов. Именно контрреволюции, ибо якобинская, а затем и марксистская концепция революционного процесса долгое время слишком категорично наделяла приставкой "контр" любые движения, не совпадающие с восходящей линией революции. Впрочем, многие участники тех движений не видели в этой приставке ничего зазорного и с готовностью подписывались под ней, чтобы отмежеваться от своих противников.

Yuri Dubrov
Russian Federation
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

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