Russian Revolution Animals
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” - George Orwell. During the Russian Revolution and other crises’ that occurred at the same time was filled with people trying to find a better future for themselves, their family, and possibly their own children. Although many people during this time period were left vulnerable and afraid of what was going to happen to them, they knew that they were going to make it out okay. In the historical fiction novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell it has animals that live on a farm depicting the events that happened during the Russian Revolution. These animals represent the kind of treatment that the humans were getting and just how little their government leaders
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The NEP (New Economic Policy) had been a nationalistic small change to how the people’s freedom of growing food. The policy had been put in place to be able to increase the economy productions, and as well as farmers having their own surplus of food. The government still watched many businesses but it allowed farmers to grow an extra amount of food to be able to sell and support themselves. It is had also let small businesses be in private ownership. Soon after though, Lenin was coming close to his death and soon to be in power would be Joseph Stalin or Leon Trotsky. Lenin had wanted Trotsky to be in power after he passed, but Stalin had been putting his allies in high positions of power behind Stalin’s back. Lenin before he passed had noted that he had a bad feeling about Stalin rising in power, and that to lean the government system to be more open to the people and democratic. Once Stalin had been in power, the NEP had ended, and soon the Five Years Plan had started. The Five-Year Plan set impossibly high quotas, or numerical goals, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity. To reach these targets, the government limited production of consumer goods. As a result, people faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, and other necessary
The NEP (New Economic Policy) had been a nationalistic small change to how the people’s freedom of growing food. The policy had been put in place to be able to increase the economy productions, and as well as farmers having their own surplus of food. The government still watched many businesses but it allowed farmers to grow an extra amount of food to be able to sell and support themselves. It is had also let small businesses be in private ownership. Soon after though, Lenin was coming close to his death and soon to be in power would be Joseph Stalin or Leon Trotsky. Lenin had wanted Trotsky to be in power after he passed, but Stalin had been putting his allies in high positions of power behind Stalin’s back. Lenin before he passed had noted that he had a bad feeling about Stalin rising in power, and that to lean the government system to be more open to the people and democratic. Once Stalin had been in power, the NEP had ended, and soon the Five Years Plan had started. The Five-Year Plan set impossibly high quotas, or numerical goals, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity. To reach these targets, the government limited production of consumer goods. As a result, people faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, and other necessary