represents Tsar Nicholas II‚ is in charge of the farm‚ the animals were all against his attitude towards the animals living on the farm. The Major‚ who represents both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin‚ uses rhetoric to persuade the animals to undertake the rebellion. This symbolises the historical event of Vladimir Lenin taking over Russia as the new dictator. The hypocrisy evident in the novel is the genuine idea to equality. All of the farm animals lived by the motto all animals are equal”‚ however
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to Lenin at Lenin’s funeral in 1924 (Pauley 53). Stalin made Lenin’s death a national day for mourning and renamed Petrograd to Leningrad (Pauley 53). Stalin mummified Lenin’s body and placed t in a huge mausoleum in Moscow as well (Pauley 53). Stalin began the first of what is now called the cult of personality. He was able to claim the status as Lenin’s most trusted and faithful disciple and his chosen successor (Pauley 53). Stalin was able to jumpstart his rise to power by bestowing Lenin the
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‘The Bolsheviks were able to seize power in October 1917 because of the leadership and determination of Lenin’ How far do you agree with this statement. It took three days for the Bolsheviks‚ specifically Trotsky’s Red Guard‚ to take control of Petrograd from 25-27 October‚ on the third day the power of the country had practically fell into their hands. The revolution was a pivotal event for world history with effects that reverberated through the 20th century. The nature of the revolution was
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in Russia‚ and the downturn of the war pushed the Russians into revolution. Vladimir Lenin‚ the leader of the Bolshevik party during the revolution and possibly the most prominent communist visionaries of the 20th century‚ had gained support for his ideology through World War I. In 1916‚ Lenin wrote Imperialism‚ the Highest Stage of Capitalism‚ which was a theoretical work outlining capitalism as a world system. Lenin suggested that in order to pursue a greater profit than what domestic resources
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Western civ 2 notes 1848 * Known as the hungry 40’s * Industrialization sweeps over Europe * Railroad transforms the world and makes the world “smaller” because news got around quicker * France – 1830-1848 – “july monarchy” Louis Philippe is a bourgeois monarch. The bourgeoisie benefitted from him because of Liberalism * French workers started to get pushed into the streets because of food shortages and rising prices * In fear of violence‚ the royal family flees and goes
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Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks that sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia. The February Revolution began on March 8‚ 1917‚ when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd. Supported by huge crowds of striking industrial workers‚ the protesters clashed with police stations. On March
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were known as the “whites”. Soon after the “whites” gained power‚ the people started feeling that they didn’t serve their interests. This opened up for more extremist political views‚ and in 1917‚ Vladimir Lenin returned from exile in Switzerland‚ and his party‚ the Bolsheviks‚ started growing faster. Lenin was providing the idealism (Marxism-Leninism) and motivation‚
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Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory
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scientific advances‚ the U.S.S.R. could not avoid a fateful end. The U.S.S.R. had risen to power in 1917‚ the Soviet Union was created to overcome national differences. The first leader of The U.S.S.R. was Vladimir Lenin (April 22‚1870-January 21‚ 1924) who had lead the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin had fallen from power and had the transition to the well known Joseph Stalin (December 18‚ 1878-March 5‚ 1953) who had led Russia in WWII from 1929 to 1953. Stalin had attempted to keep the power of the Soviet
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Over time‚ the Russian land and people have changed to accommodate for their needs but they have also kept some aspects the same whether it was for the better or the worse. Throughout 1801 and 1939‚ many things changed in the Soviet Union while keeping many things the same. An aspect of the Soviet Union that changed between 1801 and 1939 was the shift of the government from a czar ruled totalitarian government to a more distributed communist government. In March of 1801‚ Paul I was killed and his
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