The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. ... Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919 From this, it is relatively simple to track the progress of official rhetoric. ... The eventual revolution can, in the most extreme terms be seen as the final loss of patience with the Communist ideology which had been proven, by the failings of Sovie...

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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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In the early 20th century, the Soviet Union began to experience a sweeping proletarian revolution, as well as rapid industrialization. This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. Along with a transformation of Russian civilization came the remodeling of the Russian citizen, a new archetype with particular qualities that became idealized for all Soviet citizens. ... Gladkov describes Gleb's hometown as broken, the pulse of the revolution almost completely absent. ... Gladkov purposely includes Gl...

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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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