At one point, Ivan remembers a conversation with a tsarist general who slept near him in the in a camp barrack. ... The provincial Party came up with a number of arrests to be made which coincided with whatever goals they had in mind and deliver it to a "troika". ... He goes on to show us how easily this mindset was adopted among different activists from those who burned with hatred, to those with selfish personal aims, to those who were simply obeying orders down to murdering their own family if told to do so. ... Still, the most powerful factor that set in motion this dark part of ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It started with a warning, went all the way up to expulsion from public life and in some cases, even exile. ... Fitzpatrick proves that when politics and economics become too intertwined, it leads to poverty and shortages. ... The combination of examples of famine, shortages, the popular discontent with the way things were, and how the government responded with terror shows how life was turned into a nightmare (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 3). ... The book was organized topically, starting with a wonderful introduction that helped set out all her points, followed by chapters that were organized to pr...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

Even the minor characters of the story symbolize relevance with Russian history. ... The pigs will openly expose themselves to be indistinguishable with man. ... The farm itself represents Russia, with its poor conditions and unjust leaders. ... As mentioned with the allegory, Old Major is the character of Karl Marx. He was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century, and an idealist who spent most of his life studying and writing about history and economics. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With Lenin's Death in 1924 Stalin (after a political battle for the party) took on the responsibility of seeing Lenin's vision of a economically strong communist Russia through. ... With Stalin at the helm the USSR was truly born. ... "Industrialization, like collectivisation, was chiefly important to Stalin as an instrument with which to achieve increased totalitarian control" this level of control described by Hingley shows the level of personal control Stalin was able to achieve over Russia. ... Stalin was credited by the Russian people with the victory over the Nazi reg...

• Word Count: 1841
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate