Leon Trotsky, Lenin's "Right Hand Man" "Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man." ... Leon Trotsky's first name was Lev and he was born on October 26, 1879, as a well-to-do Jewish farmer. ... A good leader can't be afraid of the consequences of his actions, and Leon Trotsky wasn't. ... This shows how weak Leon Trotsky was without Lenin there with him. Therefore, we can state that Leon Trotsky, Lenin's "right hand man," was weak without Lenin at his side. ...

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Leon Trotsky and George Orwell Leon Trotsky's real name was Davidovich Bronstein. ... George Orwell's characters come into similarities with Leon Trotsky's life events. ... Leon Trotsky relied on the proletarians to over-throw the capital. ... Leon Trotsky was sent to jail several times because of his acts of rebellion. ... Leon Trotsky and Big Brother were looked at to be leaders of their form of government. ...

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Comparing Animal Revolutionist and Russian Revolutionist There are many people that had an influence on the Russian Revolution but three names stand out in bold, these people are Joseph Stalin (the ruthless Russian leader,) Leon Trotsky (the smooth talking leader that opposed Stalin,) and Nikolai Lenin (the creator of the Russian Revolution.) ... Joseph Stalin and Napoleon will be compared together on how they are alike, Leon Trotsky and Snowball will be compared, and also Nikolai Lenin and Old Major will be the last comparison. ... This leader was Leon Trotsky or in the novel Snowball. ...

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Personal Study "get rid of man" is a quote from "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell. The novel outlines what happened during the Russian Revolution. In my study I shall be focusing on how the novel relates to the Revolution without actually commenting on it. The nov...

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Background Information Leon Trotsky is indeed a man that has a lot of impact on the Russian history. ... Leon was born a Jew by his parents, the Bronstein in 1879 and they were not the religious type of Jewish and the language they indulged in was majorly a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian. ... When young, Leon joined many revolutionary groups and ended up in great troubles. ... His teenage and early adulthood life was full of challenges given that he changed his name from Bronstein to Trotsky after he immigrated to London in the year 1902. ... He assumed the identity of a man named Trotsky wh...

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The novel, though, was actually meant by Orwell to be a satire of Russia during its revolutionary period from the Czar Nicholas II to Trotsky and Stalin. ... Later on, Leon Trotsky, Stalin's Commissar of War and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, became his greatest opposition and a dangerous threat to his absolute power due to his superior intelligence and ideas. ... (Pravda March 2, 1930) After adopting Trotsky's philosophies and integrating them into his own, Stalin had Trotsky exiled to prevent him from taking over. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown...

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Firstly, Stalin's leading rival Leon Trotsky was very arrogant. ... Thirdly, when Stalin was campaigning for leadership, his main rival Leon Trotsky got Malaria. This stopped Trotsky from campaigning against Stalin. ... This gave Stalin the advantage over Trotsky. ... They defeated Trotsky and then the people saw Trotsky as a disloyal man who thought he was above everyone else. ...

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Snowball clearly depicted Leon Trotsky in Animal Farm, through Snowball's actions, Trotsky's factual history, and a comparison of the two characters will justify the thesis. ... In October of 1917, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin decided to make their move. ... "Trotsky was a brilliant speaker and writer. ... Snowball clearly represents Leon Trotsky their character traits are symmetrical. ... All the characters in the story had historical counterparts, and as proved in this paper, Snowball evidently represented Leon Trotsky....

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(Orwell 35) To illustrate this, Snowball is compared to political mastermind Leon Trotsky. ... The previous statement is compared to Trotsky's political ideologies. Trotsky followed Marxism but didn't agree with the most radical ideologies. ... Trotsky's approach was more pragmatic than that of the radicals. Trotsky was a very quick, eloquent speaker. ...

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" This quote, by Leon Trotsky, written in his book, Their Morals and Ours, depicts relativistic ideals in that through relativism, the end results of actions taken may easily justify said actions as long as the person taking said actions benefit from the end result. ...

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The two pigs represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin's part being played by Napoleon and Trotsky's by Snowball. ... Stalin actually does over throw Trotsky, as does Napoleon to Snowball. ... Trotsky is truly a good speaker and a smarter individual, but Stalin showed no mercy to his counterpart and outsmarted him solely on the basis of his understanding of government. Much like Soviet events, Stalin then makes a country dislike Trotsky through a series of lies and eventually Trotsky is fleeing the country much as Snowball does in Animal Farm. ...

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Jones was like Czar Nicholas, Old Major was compared to Vladimir Lenin, Snowball was similar to Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon was reminiscent of Joseph Stalin. ... Snowball, Leon Trotsky, Napoleon, and Joseph Stalin are perfect comparisons. Trotsky, like Snowball, was mainly concerned with spreading his ideas, while Stalin, like Napoleon, was more interested in solidifying his domination over others. ...

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When Lenin was building up the Bolsheviks lots of people started to look at them more seriously. he exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who arrived in Petrograd in May from America, agreed with Lenin's policy and joined the Bolshevik Party. Trotsky was a huge help to the Bolshevik. When Lenin told the people that he was going to give them some thing Trotsky would deliver it to the people. ... Now that Lenin had the help of Trotsky he brought out the three words that would seal the control of Russia. ...

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These historical ideas (in which the bias of political, social and class background should be considered), shared with historians such as Leon Trotsky, state that the Russian Revolution, and the beginnings of the workers class dismantling '‎the party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie' was an inevitable and significant event, and was handled expertly by the Bolshevik's. ...

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The struggle for domination between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin emerges in the rivalry between the pigs Snowball and Napoleon. In both the historical and story bound cases, the unrealistic but politically less powerful figure (Trotsky and Snowball) is expelled from the revolutionary state by the cruel and aggressive possessor of power (Stalin and Napoleon). ...

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This is in fact also what happened to Stalin's main rival, Leon Trotsky. ... Stalin/Napoleon viewed Trotsky/Snowball as a threat, he was scared that Trotsky/Snowball might try to steal his power away from him. ...

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One of Lenin's greatest supporters, Leon Trotsky played a major role in the Bolshevik's rise to power. ... In an attempt to gain momentum for Lenin's movement, Trotsky convinced Lenin to name the revolution in favor of the soviets. ... With this new political and military confidence, Trotsky began attacks on key government buildings, such as the Winter Palace, and provisional government officials. ... Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution answered with Trotsky's Red Army and by the spring of 1919, the disorganized and less powerful White armies had been defeated. ... Lenin'...

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In addition, Emanuel Goldstein somehow also resembles Trotsky from a Stalinized point of view. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Communist Revolution and one of the principal leaders in the establishment of the USSR. ...

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Leon Trotsky seized government buildings in Petrograd, and he arrested the members of the Provisional Government (Perry 661). Similar to Trotsky, Napoleon, the head of the pigs and Animal Farm, cast out the animals who disagreed with his beliefs and then began living in the house. ...

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Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin, is one of the many pigs on the farm, but as mentioned on page 9, Napoleon was a less vivacious pig than Snowball (Leon Trotsky) and had a reputation of getting his own way, therefore giving him the foreground to take leadership of Animal Farm. ...

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Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin, is one of the many pigs on the farm, but as mentioned on page 9, Napoleon was a less vivacious pig than Snowball (Leon Trotsky) and had a reputation of getting his own way, therefore giving him the foreground to take leadership of Animal Farm. ...

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(Trotsky, Leon) Trotsky thought the Cheka organization was setting a good warning for anti-Bolsheviks. ... With the leadership of Lenin, General Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky, the Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil War easily. ... Trotsky's leadership helped out through the army. ... At one incident, Trotsky stopped Czech prisoners from fighting the Central Powers by stopping them on the railroad tracks. ... However Trotsky later took back Perm and faced a challenge from Poland. ...

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Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin respectively. ... Even though in the beginning Leon Trotsky and he were in charge, Stalin began a campaign to discredit and isolate Trotsky, whom he exiled in 1927. ...

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He was successful in persuading the Committee to carry out an armed force takeover, which was then put in the hands of Leon Trotsky. As for military strategy, Trotsky,who had a very strong organisational hold in the Military Revolutionary Committee and controlled the Red Guard, was instrumental in executing an almost bloodless takeover of power. On 24 October, under the control of Trotsky, the MRC and Red Guard was suddenly to occupy key areas of Petrograd and arrest most the Provisional Government in Winter Palace, leaving members of Provisional Government no time to offer any opposition or r...

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