This is proved by Snowball and Napoleon, characters which represent Leon Trotsky and Stalin, respectively. ... Pigs which might represent the communist party, Stalin's friends as well perhaps, as the Duma ( or Russian parliament). ... We find out that it is indeed the proletariat, the class which mainly supports Stalin (Napoleon). This might be because they are unable to distinguish the difference between their lives under the Tsar (Mr.Jones) and their lives under Stalin. ... The dogs are considered to symbolized the secret police, which would normally get rid of Stalin's oppo...

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Trotsky and Stalin were the two candidates for the take over Russia's government. They both used socialism to try to move into power, but Stalin used socialism on the home front to his advantage. ... This idea did not go over well and Stalin won increasing support. ... After Trotsky was out of the way, Stalin killed his supporters and furthered his totalitarian role. ...

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The world has seen those "someones" in figures of Joe Stalin, Bennitto Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and others. ... An interesting point is that Stalin thought that social democracy and fascism were twins. ...

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In his struggle to seek help in running his country he had to create a Bureaucracy; the man that would come to lead this bureaucracy was Joseph Stalin. ... Stalin and a Revolutionary named Trotsky were the two contenders for the new Government. ... This had ceiled the election votes, and made Stalin the new ruler of Russia. Stage 7 Under the control of Stalin; Russia gained the image as the most organized state that had ever come about. ...

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Lenin and Stalin were not true to the Marxist ideals but were corrupted by power, yet the Marxist dream of an egalitarian classless society is one we should still strive for. ... The regimes of Lenin and Stalin made it clear that a "classless society" is not the result of these forms of socialism. ...

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The release of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debat...

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Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto In "The Communist Manifesto", Karl Marx offers the premise for his socialist ideologies. He asserts that in society people are either an oppressor, or the oppressed. At the time it was written, the Feudal system had ceased and the industrial revolution was at...

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Russia continued into a spiraling path away from true Marxist idealism as Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the Central Committee. Idealism, wishing for a unified and industrialized Russia, was no longer regarded and instead realism took over, as Stalin no longer followed Marxist policies. ...

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We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...

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Lenin and his principals are the subject of a huge historiographical debate. The controversy surrounding Lenin's pragmatism in the face of social, political and economic instability begs the question: did Lenin compromise his principals in the race for survival? It is astonishing that surrounded by ...

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