The winning of this class war was Mark's utopian fantasy, so while Lenin and Trotsky tried to figure out what to do after winning the social war, Stalin was eventually allowed to rise to power. ... In Stalin's Russia, his regime of totalitarianism controlled every aspect of Russian society. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. ... Hitler despised all things liberal because it focuses on the individual, and he wanted society to not be made up of individuals but of one single body...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another key term mentioned, irony, describes the disjunction between what the audience would expect, and what really happens. ... He takes full use of what the animals understand, and what the audience understands about the situation at Animal Farm. ... This rule is evident in reality, particularly when the animals peered through a window of the barn house: "No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. ... Orwell's main purpose of writing Animal Farm was to show how Communism fails to create a Utopian society. ...

• Word Count: 1539
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Utopian visions of a democratic state seemed almost tantalisingly achievable. ... Essentially, what the Bolsheviks wanted was as much opposed to the real desires of the people, as had been the policies of the provisional government. ... Lenin, the father of communism, believed it the job of his party to exercise control of society. ... If we cannot shoot a man who sabotages a member of the Red Guard, then what kind of revolution is this?" ... Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. ...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School