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Short Summary: Animal Farm Vs. Russian War
Mia Lawson
December 3, 2014
English 9
Response to Literary
Animal Farm v. Russian War Tsar Nicolas II was the Emperor of Russia and was the last. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russia. Nicolas ruled from November 1st 1894 until March 15th 1917. Under his reign his country, Russia, faced a humiliating defeat in the war against the Japanese. Nicholas approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the beginning of Russia's involvement in the First World War, a war in where millions of Russians were killed. The imperial army suffered severe loses. Nicholas II was forces to resign from his throne after the February war in 1917. Nicholas II; his wife, his son, his four daughters, the family's medical doctor, the Emperor's footman, the Empress' maidservant, and the family's cook, were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16 July 1918. Due to his sad reign and his execution the communist was able to gain control. You can say his death was the first step towards the Russian War.
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He was a major player in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. Trotsky failed to get rid of Joseph Stalin and his rise and was removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, and he was finally deported from the Soviet Union. In the late 1930s, Trotsky opposed Stalin's non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler. Trotsky was killed by Spanish-born Soviet agent in August 1940 in Mexico. Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico with a mountaineers' ice axe. The blow to Trotsky's head was poorly delivered and failed to kill Trotsky instantly. Trotsky went to the hospital, had sugary and survived for one last day until he died at age

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