Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... "Stalin owed everything to Lenin." ... Marx's theory became Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. ... The first victim of Stalinism was the peasant." ... "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." ...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... "Stalin owed everything to Lenin." ... Marx's theory became Lenin's doctrine and Stalin's creative justification. ... The first victim of Stalinism was the peasant." ... "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." ...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... Equally important, one needs to highlight the parallelism between events in this fable and the political and social situation in the Soviet Union under the reign of Joseph Stalin. ... Through his narra...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate