The story takes place in Redding, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War, about 1776 to 1779. ... The story focuses on their lives during the Revolutionary War. ... They get through the war and move to Pennsylvania. ... The plot is very believable and is very much like how people would have felt and lived during the war. ... The central conflict of the story was that when the war started, Sam went to war and his father is against him on the other side. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Trotsky, Lenin's brilliant accomplice and civil war hero, seemed the natural replacement. ... Revolutionary governments have no mechanism for promotion and so unmerited rises to power were possible. ... Trotsky did nothing to change this perception; he was a brilliant theorist with little interest in paperwork, so much so that he saw the party's transition towards a bureaucracy as anti-revolutionary. ... As Stalin controlled the party machinery, he would always win the propaganda war that followed. ...

• Word Count: 1158
• Approx Pages: 5