the last scene of the novel. He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel and a number of interpretations have been put forward. It has been suggested that he represents the aged population of Russia‚ or that he represents the Menshevik intelligentsia: as intelligent‚ if not more so‚ than the novel’s pigs. He is very cynical about the Revolution and life in general. For the most part he represents the skeptical people in and out of Russia who believed that Communism would not help
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pulled Russia out of the war just as quickly. The other Allies‚ Britain and the U.S. resented the loss of a front on the German Empire and the greater stress it put on them. The Bolsheviks quickly disposed of all opposition with the exception of the Mensheviks who were backed by the U.S. and Britain. The Russian Civil War began and after long and bloody period ended with the Bolsheviks remaining in power and the murder of the Romanovs‚ the royal family‚ effectively ending the hope of a stage 3 end to
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Nenad Stefanovski Ms Fleming IB1 History 18 March 2013 “Left Wing single party states achieve power as the result of a revolutionary process against tradition.” Does this adequately explain how any one single party state that you have studied acquired power? In 1917‚ a revolution took place in Russia that overthrew the traditional Tsarist regime and brought a single party state‚ the Bolshevik Party‚ into power. The Bolshevik party harnessed the revolutionary spirit from the overthrow of the
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The last Tsar Nicholas II ascended the throne in 1894 and was faced with a country that was trying to free itself from its autocratic regime. The serfs had recently been emancipated‚ the industry and economy was just starting to develop and opposition to the Tsar was building up. Russia was still behind Europe in terms of the political regime‚ the social conditions and the economy. Nicholas II who was a weak and very influenced by his mother and his wife had to deal with Russia’s troubles during
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1905 Russian Revolution At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian industrial employee worked on average an 11 hour day (10 hours on Saturday). Conditions in the factories were extremely harsh and little concern was shown for the workers’ health and safety. Attempts by workers to form trade unions were resisted by the factory owners and in 1903‚ a priest‚ Father Georgi Gapon‚ formed the Assembly of Russian Workers. Within a year it had over 9‚000 members. 1904 was a particularly bad year
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socialists” in their policy of equitable distribution of wealth. However‚ the Bolsheviks under Lenin wanted a disciplined group‚ and not farmers‚ in the party. While the Bolsheviks believed in controlling the number and quality of its members‚ the Mensheviks believed that the party should be open to all. In the field of economic conditions‚ 1904 was a bad year for the workers. Due to rise in prices of essential goods‚ real wages decreased by 20%‚ leading to the famous St.Petersburg strike where 110
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And they all confessed ... IN 1936‚ TERROR REIGNED in the Soviet Union and Anna Akhmatova wrote: "I have seen faces consumed‚ glimpsed horror under lowered eyelids‚ cheeks etched by pain." Even André Gide observed after his visit to the Soviet Union in 1936: "In my opinion‚ no country today not even in Hitler’s Germany is the spirit more suppressed‚ more timid‚ more servile than in the Soviet Union." Or‚ as brigade commander S. P. Kolosov whose final fate is unknown expressed it in an anything
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Laura Williams. How accurate is it to say that the growth of reformist groups in the years from 1881 was the main cause for the 1905 revolution? It is to a certain extent accurate to say that the growth of the reformist groups in the years 1881 was the main cause for the 1905 revolution‚ however it is not completely accurate. Many factors caused the 1905 revolution. The reformist groups did contribute to the outbreak of the 1905 revolution but other factors such as the distraught anger of
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How far do you agree that the Struggle for Power following Lenin’s death in 1924 was caused by the ideological differences between the contenders for power? After the revolution in 1917 Lenin led Russia. However‚ in 1922 he began to suffer strokes later resulting in his death in 1924. As he didn’t see him self passing away so early he had left no clear set of plans as to who should take over from him or how the country should be run. This was the first time such an event had happened as the hierarchy
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The February/March Revolution How far would you agree that the February/March revolution that overthrew the Russian monarchy was a “spontaneous uprising”? Answer this question and develop a deep analysis. The second revolution in Russia at the time of World War One‚ following the first revolt in 1905‚ took place in February (March for the rest of Europe) of the year 1917. At the time‚ the conditions of the nation were strained under almost every aspect. The decision of the Tsar Nicholas II
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