Last November, the Bolsheviks led a massive revolution against Kerensky's provisional government. ... For starters, people were appalled at how Kerensky kept Russia in the war, continuing to support our country in the hopes of establishing greater freedom and democracy. ... They had the full support of the workers and peasants by September and at that point, we all knew a successful revolution was inevitable. In his first months as leader, Lenin made a call to end the war and announced that the 540 million acres of the land was to be handed over to the Russian people. ... The vast majori...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... By giving them new, structur...

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Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. ... This, obviously, is a reference to Stalin, who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. ... From a symbolic point of view, the windmill represents the enormous transformation projects undertook in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution. ... Orwell uses his characters not only to portray leaders form the Russian revolution, but to also emphasize his main point of the novel. ... Even though Napoleon is always...

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From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolution. ... As a result 2.1 million Kulaks were exiled from Russia, 2.5 million were resettled and another 1.5 million fled to other regions. ... Russian production increased by 250% between 1929 and 1933. ...

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The Chinese have so many problems similar to those of Russia. ... Also, similarly to Russia the army controls the parties. ... There needs to be a revolution in China. ... The people do not think about revolution, one because they are afraid, and two because they don't have anyone to lead them into battle so to speak. ...

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The color itself is symbolic and represents the appeal to the war and revolution. ... The fact that Russian cinema was one of the most artistically advanced in the silent production era points its high production value as propaganda. ... " During the early revolution, religious people were considered enemies of the nation. ... The atheist education was the main target in the Russian schools, by denying all form of religious beliefs and promoting a nationalist identity. ...

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Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the successful formation of a Communist or Socialist state in Russia. The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ...

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To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regim...

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To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regim...

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To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regim...

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After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel Czars) the control of power in Russia was taken from the slim minority by the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. ...

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This was a revolution for the animals. ... The result of this can only be another revolution. ... But the book did not end in another revolution. ... The novel bares a striking resemblance to the story of revolution and communism in Russia, staring with the overthrow of the Tsar and in 1945 ending in the very oppressive and aggressive regime under Stalin. Many of the attributes of Stalin's leadership of Russia are the same as Napoleon's leadership of Animal Farm. ...

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