Through this essay, the social and political situation presented in George Orwell's Animal Farm will thoroughly be discussed and described. ... It is a fact that by February 20 of this year 50 per cent of the peasant farms throughout the U.S.S.R. had been collectivised. ... (Smyer 13-14) Although the parallels are many, the overall plot and moral can also be seen and understood separately from its historical context. ... (Orwell 28) The animals plan and then act out their rebellion successfully, renaming the farm Animal Farm instead of the former Manor Farm, which to the animal rep...

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Fixed quotas were set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. ... This charter made it legal to re-grant to peasants a small private plot on which they could keep a small number of livestock and trade surplus produce grown on their private plots. 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 t...

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Russia was only importing 10% of farm machinery needed compared to the 80% imported in the beginning of the plans. ... With huge collectivized farms or Kolkhoz and new machinery to increase efficiency fewer peasants were needed to work the farms and moved to the cities to work in the factories. ... Peasants working on the collectivized farms were denied the right to leave the collectives which forced them to apply themselves more heavily to their work. ... They were charged with many crimes, such as plotting industrial sabotage, collaborating with Trotsky to restore capitalism in the Soviet Un...

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"The average Kolkhoznik benefited little from the post-1958 innovations so he reverted to his private plot. ... The peasants were not happy and in regards to the farms, there was an absence of control from the top. ... In short, "The improved incentives and priorities for farm production were, it seems, policies that all the main rivals for the succession to Stalin would have adopted The policies identified more specifically with Khrushchev himself - maize in Chukotka and the like, plus perhaps the Virgin Lands scheme - were ambiguous or downright damaging in the effects" (Hanson 57). ...

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"The average Kolkhoznik benefited little from the post-1958 innovations so he reverted to his private plot. ... The peasants were not happy and in regards to the farms, there was an absence of control from the top. ... In short, "The improved incentives and priorities for farm production were, it seems, policies that all the main rivals for the succession to Stalin would have adopted The policies identified more specifically with Khrushchev himself - maize in Chukotka and the like, plus perhaps the Virgin Lands scheme - were ambiguous or downright damaging in the effects" (Hanson 57). ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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In 1886 his father died from a cerebral hemorrhage, the following year his brother, Alexander, was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. ... Land was redistributed, some as collective farms. ...

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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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