In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... The barn at Manor Farm is where all on the democracy issue among the animals come up. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. ... Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ...

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The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms that were the common place in the Soviet Union, with large scale highly mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. Collectivisation meant for peasants that they would have to give all their property to a collective farm and would have to sell most of the food they produced at low prices that had been set up by the state, and keep only the bare minimum for themselves. This was bitterly opposed by peasants who in many cases destroyed their animals rather than hand them...

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The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace the small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms, with large scale mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. ... For those with property, however, collectivisation meant giving up to the collective farms and selling most of the food that they produced to the state at low prices set by the state itself, leaving the farmers with a bare minimum. ... In an attempt to prevent resistance to collectivisation, the USSR used shock brigades to force reluctant peasants into joining the collective farms (1929-33). In resp...

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Stalin's policy of collectivism entailed the confiscation of the bulk of the land and farm machinery of the peasants into the control of the state. ... Fixed quotas were set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. ... The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to the collectivised farms. However dissatisfaction continued among the peasants as the best land and animals...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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