Why has the revolutionary‚ idealistic novel Animal Farm remained such an interesting piece of literature?[d][e] It encourages readers to think about the Soviet Union in a new way. Orwell took his in-depth[f] understanding[g] to create a setting using symbols‚ metaphors‚ themes‚ and characterization to embody the events of the Russian Revolution. He helped the readers to understand the accounts of the rise and development of soviet communism in the form of an animal tale. Thus[h]‚ throughout the novel
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Joseph Stalin prosecuted a reign of terror. He practiced executions‚ labor camps‚ and persecution in the postwar USSR. He suppressed all dissent and anything that had any foreign influence throughout Eastern Europe. In 1949‚ he led the Soviets into the nuclear age by exploding an atomic bomb. The story‚ “Animal farm” is an allegory based on the Russian revolution and when Russia became a communist government. Every character represents someone from that time. For example‚ the boar Napoleon represents
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I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution’. Stalin managed to convince the politburo to ignore this and covered the testament up. Lenin praised Leon Trotsky in his testament. Stalin’s closest rival in the struggle power was Leon Trotsky. Trotsky unlike Stalin was not from a peasant background‚ this lost him votes as they felt he thought higher of himself he also was very arrogant which also lost him many votes. People
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http://library.thinkquest.org/C0112205/stalinsrussia.html http://ibatpv.org/projects/soviet_union/stalins%20impact%20on%20society.htm http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html Essay It was said by many that Stalin was a great and successful leader‚ however‚ though he was successful in industrialising Russia‚ Stalin proved to be a cruel‚ merciless leader to his people. The economic growth of Russia under Stalin’s rule was abundant‚ but the human loss was devastating. Stalin was also very
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In fact‚ some of the characters in the story personify people who were a part of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is based on Joseph Stalin‚ Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky‚ Old Major is based on Karl Marx‚ and Mr. Jones is based on Tsar Nicholas II. Animal Farm starts out with a situational irony when the animals are very unhappy with the humans and decide to take over the farm and run it themselves. The two pigs
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characters Snowball and Napoleon argue over the construction of the windmill as Orwell explains in chapter five that‚ “as usual‚ Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement‚” which serves as a parallel between Joseph Stalin (portrayed as Napoleon) and Leon Trotsky (Snowball). Snowball was more about intellect and sought to stir rebellions in other neighboring farms seeing protection in numbers. Meanwhile‚
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the ordinary occurred in Joseph Stalin’s childhood that you would expect to see in a man that would later become one of the world’s most brutal leaders. As a result of his use of fear‚ intimidation‚ and his successful plan to oust his main rival‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Joseph Stalin was able to seize power in Russia. From the beginning of Joseph Stalin’s college career he was seen as a leader. He started a committee in his college because he did not like the school’s curriculum. He recruited members so that
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lead USSR . Leon Trotsky seemed to have the stronghold as he had a close relationship with Lenin. However in the background there was opposition growing. Stalin was to be Trotsky’s most fierce competitor‚ but at that time there were others including Lev Kamenev and G.E.Zinoviev who were close to Lenin during the revolution and had aided him greatly so they too were seen as competitors. These three were to form the‚ ‘troika’ and when Lenin’s death neared they were to jointly attack Trotsky. In 1921 the
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leadership began from being promoted by Lenin. After Lenin’s death‚ there were five main people struggling to achieve the position of a leader of USSR. These were: Trotsky‚ Bukharin‚ Kamenev‚ Zinoviev and Stalin. Stalin wanted to become the leader of USSR. His main rival was Leon Trotsky because he had the support of the Soviet people. Trotsky‚ Kamenev and Zinoviev joined together to oppose the continuation of the New Economic Policy (a new and more capitalized economic policy‚ which was supposed to revive
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In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell‚ a new “political party” is created by the members of their animalian society‚ which is not only comparable to Communism in theory but also in execution. This so-called political party goes by the name of Animalism; a name that is reminiscent of Communism due to the pronunciation. There is far more to Animalism than the name that brings the thought of Communism to mind. The idea of Animalism (the name would come later from a different source) was brought
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