Animal Farm

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Animal Farm
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Russian Revolution

• How It Started
• Czar Nicolas II
• Absolute power
• Huge social gulf between the peasants and the
  land owner and the elite
• Peasants and workers begin rebelling against the
  Czar in 1905

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Bolshevik power

• Vladimar Lenin was leader
• Gained control in 1917
• Had the Romanov family murdered in 1918
• Wanted Communism

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Communism

• Comes from the root word of community
• Equal distribution of wealth and possessions
  among Russias citizens

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Lenin

• Marxist revolutionist
• Led Bolsheviks
• Used the Red Guard to stop others from taking
  over Russia, then used it to take over Russia
  himself
• Led a campaign of Red Terrorin 1918 - a
  systematic plot to execute opponents of communism

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Lenin

• Created a New Economic Policy
• Allowed for limited private ownership of land
  and business
• Called it breathing space for Communism to
  prevail

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Lenin

• Moved capital to Moscow
• Renamed Russia to Soviet Union in 1922
• Named his party the Communist party in 1917
• October Revolution killed many to gain control
  and instate Communism

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Lenin

• Named Joseph Stalin -Secretary General
• Powerful position in Communist party
• Ability to make appointments to other positions
  of power
• Ability to gain important allies

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Lenin

• 1922- Lenin suffers paralyzing strokes
• Removed from leadership position
• 1924- Lenin dies
• Stalin and Trotsky struggle for power

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Stalin wins!

• Stalin out-maneuvers Trotsky and gains control
• Stalin starts to isolate Trotsky within the party
  because he is a threat

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Leon Trotsky

• Gifted speaker and writer
• Political genius
• Tried to end Russian involvement in WWII
• Great thoughts and plans but had trouble actually
  installing them
• Was not liked by Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

• 1924- Assumes full control after Lenin dies
• Ruled as absolute dictator throughout WWII and
  until his death in 1953

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Stalins Repression Terror

• Terrorized country with widespread arrests and
  executions
• Anyone thought to be opposed to Stalin and
  Communism was executed on the spot

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Reign of Terror

• 1934 great purges and show trials
• Sent millions to Soviet labor camps
• 2-7 million innocent citizens are murdered
• Forced confessions
• Public accusations

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Reign of Terror

• Employed KGB to repress any opposition
• Used publications to report statistics
  inaccurately in his favor

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Stalin

• 1928 First Five Year Plan
• Attempt to make Russia a modern industrial state
• Comrades need to work harder so Soviet Russia
  can be a beacon of hope to workers everywhere

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Stalin in Power

• 1933 Second Five Year Plan- emphasized rapid
  growth of Soviet Industry
• This worked fairly well, by the end Soviet Russia
  was a formidable world power

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Secret Agreement

• German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact secret
  agreement between Stalin and Hitler
• Neither country would attack each other

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Liar!

• Hitler lied!
• 1941- Operation Barbarossa
• Germany fully attacks Russia!

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Symbolism

• Animal Farm
• Napoleon
• Animalism

• Russian Revolution
• Stalin
• Communism

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Allegory

• Underlying meaning and surface meaning
• Grand in scope

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Fable

• A short story that has a moral and has animals as
  characters

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Satire

• A story that makes fun of something

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George Orwell

• Real name Eric Blair
• Disapproved of Communism
• A socialist

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George Orwell

• Communism was not pure socialism because
• Gulf in society
• Control of the peasants
• Hypocritical

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George Orwell/author

• Used his writings to communicate a political
  message
• Wrote 1984
• Big Brother rules a society
• Everyone is watched 24 hours a day