PLATONOV - KOTLOVAN: Dai tol'ko massam

[Olga Meerson]

RobertJan,
You are absolutely right about razaktivim--by analogy with raskrutim, razgonim (which, by the way, could be both!!!) or raskachaem. Perhaps activate each and everyone--to deal with the exhaustive property of the prefix raz-?

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:28 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] PLATONOV - KOTLOVAN: Dai tol'ko massam

> Dear all,
> 
> This passage comes near the end of the book
> > 
> > ????? ??????; ?? ??? ???????? ?? ?????, ?????? ??? ????? ??? 
> ????????? ??
> > ?????????? ?????, ? ????? ?? ???????? ???? ??????????????.  – ??? 
> ???????> ?????? ? ??? ?? ? ????? ????? – ???? ?????? ????? ??????: 
> ??? ??? ???? ?????
> > ?????!  – ???? ????? ??????????, – ????? ????????.  – ? ??? 
> ?????, – ?????????
> > ??????. – ???? ????????? ???????: ???? ???? ??.  – ??? – ???? ? 
> ?????! –
> > ??????????? ????????? ?????. – ?? ????? ?? ???? ??????????: ??? 
> ?????? ??????
> > ??????????, ??? ????? ????????!
> > 
> > - Sidi zapisyvai poluchshe: tvoe delo um.
> > - Eto – poka ya durak! - predupredil aktivista Zhachev.  - No 
> skoro my vsekh
> > razaktivim: dai tol’ko massam izmuchit’sya, dai detyam podrasti!
> > 
> ‘I’ll go myself,’ decreed Chiklin.  ‘You sit and write: your task 
> is mind.’
> 
> ‘Not for long it won’t be!’  Zhachev warned the activist.  ‘Soon we’ll
> activate everyone and send you lot packing. Just wait till the 
> masses are
> worn down, till the children have grown a little!’
> > 
> > 
> >             *****
> > 
> > I am assuming that the primary meaning is 'activate' rather than 
> 'deactivate'.> My uncertain understanding is that Zhachev considers 
> the masses a lost cause
> > and that his only hope lies in the children, once they have grown 
> up a little.
> > Another possibility is something like "just wait till the masses 
> will have
> > suffered long enough to become [politically] active".
> > 
> > What does anyone else think?!
> > 
> > 
> > Vsego dobrogo,
> > 
> > Robert 
> 
> 
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