Churchill "Stalin is the Lenin of today‚" said a popular propaganda slogan of the thirties and the forties. The situation has changed drastically since that time; people ’s opinion of Stalin has changed in light of the new facts that came out during the course of history. One of such influencing factors was the "secret" speech given by Khrushchev during the Twentieth Congress of KPSS. This speech‚ however‚ does not give a real picture of either Stalin or Lenin: Khrushchev denounces the idolization
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History Department IGCSE Coursework assignment A Russia 1905-41 1. Compare the characters and beliefs of Lenin and Stalin Stalin and Lenin were similar to an extent in their character but had many contrasting qualities. Lenin had great leadership skill in running the Bolshevik party‚ he was organised and his never-ending determination and dedication was rivalled by none other‚ however to say that Stalin
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Vladimir Lenin The Russian Revolution‚ we know how it began‚ why it began‚ and the outcome of it. We know that without it Russia would have not become to powerhouse that it was during World War II and beyond (and without it might have been completely taken over by the Nazis). However‚ unlike the French Revolution which had no clear leader or originator of the revolution at the very beginning of Russia’s toppling of the monarchy and rise of Communism was one man: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Vladimir
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something deep down inside of me that just really triggers my feeling of resentment. Hatred surrounds me and rebellion is just in the air. I explained to the flock that we as animals are not treated equal at all by humans. For example‚ animals grew old; we fought for a living‚ and in the end what do we get? Our meats sold to the butcher‚ we are killed selfishly‚ and eaten by humans. Life is hard and I know we all can’t deny it. Why must we be born into this crucial world where this unfair life
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Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin‚ also known as Vladimir Lllych Ulyanov was a strong believer in equalism (Trueman 1).”Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian Communist Party‚ led the Bolshevik Revolution‚ and was the architect of the Soviet state ”(“Vladimir Lenin” 1). In a book titled Animal Farm by George Orwell there is a character named Old Major who resembles Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin was one of the first to encourage the idea of the rebellion and the idea of equalism‚ as did Old Major from George
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proletariat to the position of ruling class (“Dictatorship of the Proletariat”).” As the animals was the labor community of the farm they should command‚ "getting rid of Man‚ and the produce of our labor would be our own (Orwell 7).” Just like Karl Marx‚ Old Major also believe that a community should be ruled by those who work for it‚ not the upper middle class. The power concentrated in the hands of the minority was getting in the way of the development of communism. “The theory of communism may be summed
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struggle. From the crowd leaders emerge‚ the intelligent‚ the most powerful‚ and the ones who can get the job done. In two of history’s more renowned revolutions‚ the French and Russian‚ two great thinkers pushed the revolution onward‚ Robespierre and Lenin‚ respectively. Maximilien Robespierre was born on May 6‚ 1758‚ the son of a lawyer in Arras. His life was successful early on‚ being awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Louis-le-Grand College in Paris. Here he was prominent in his studies of
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik (meaning Majority) faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party and took power in the October Revolution of 1917. He was born in the city of Simbirsk in 1870 and studied Law at Kazan ’ university‚ where he was introduced to Marxist literature. His brother Alexandr was involved in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexandr III and executed. He spent some time in internal exile in Siberia before being exiled from Russia. It was in London that he formed
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Old Major: As the father of Animalism‚ Old Major is an obvious counterpart for Karl Marx‚ or‚ in some cases‚ Vladimir Lenin (Old Major’s skull was publicly shown in a similar way as Lenin’s remains were). Orwell did not mention Napoleon or Snowball at all during the speech Old Major gave on Animalism‚ showing how out-of-touch they actually were with him. It seems that the pigs took Old Major’s ideas and twisted them to their own belief. This could mirror how Stalin (Napoleon) ignored what Old Major
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Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born on May 4‚ 1870. In school‚ he was very bright‚ and enjoyed reading and writings of Goethe and Turgenev. Lenin’s father died of a cerebral hemorrhage and his brother was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Lenin was finally accepted to the Kazan University where he studied law. He was expelled‚ and later studied law on his own and passed the exam in first in a class of 124 people in 1891. In 1895‚ Lenin traveled to Switzerland
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