George Orwell's, Animal Farm, was written to illustrate the events of the Marxist Revolution of 1917. ... The animals in the story portrayed humans during the Marxist Revolution of 1917. ... He was a visionary thinker, and hoped to carry out his friend, Lenins', vision and transform Russia into an industrial inspiration. ... The story, Animal Farm, and the events that occurred in the Russian Revolution directly parallel each other. ... In order to relate his opinion to his general audience without controversy, he chose to depict the events of the Russian Revolution in a round-a-bout ...

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To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. The goal of the Five Year Plan was to make USSR a modern agricultural and industrial country. ... Joseph Stalin was able to prevail through many hard times in his life, although he was a controlling and vile dictator he was needed to make the USSR a modern and industrial country. ...

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By this means industrial conditions were investigated, statistics compiled and pamphlets written. ... Lenin returned to Russia for two years but the promised revolution did not happen as the Tsar made enough concessions to calm the people. Lenin went abroad again. 1917 was to finally see the revolution in Russia. In fact two revolutions occurred in this year. ...

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Stalin wanted to modernize Russia making it an advanced industrial country he had to cover agriculture as well as industry and wanted to bring peasants under state control. ... " The names of his rivals were then removed from official histories of the revolution. ...

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