historical events and human nature. 3. Analyze how Leon Trotsky‚ Joseph Stalin and the working class are satirized through the characters in Animal Farm. 4. Describe how the abuse of power causes three negative effects upon the animals of Animal Farm. 5. Choose three events from the novel and argue that they are representative of events occurring in Russia during its revolution and the reign of Joseph Stalin. Consider the following. • The Rebellion/the Russian Revolution
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Ch. 10 Russia: 1903-1905 – Russo-Japanese War Fighting over Manchuria (Chinese farmland) Japan wins Fighting lasts only 3 months‚ but Russia and Japan cant agree on terms. U.S. mediates- Japan gets everything After Russia loses war‚ Russian people lose faith in gov’t; demand more voice Czar Nicholas Romanov II gives in‚ cerates DUMA (People’s voice) Nicholas II only care about himself and Romanov family (ruling family)‚ eventually disbands DUMA. Vladimir Lenin: Marxist revolutionary With
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Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union starting from 1922-1953 (Mazelev‚ 1999). Stalin is famous for his extremities used to build and sustain Communism in USSR. He is considered as one of the leaders who were responsible for the death of many people during their rule. The estimated number of deaths for which he is known to be responsible goes over 40 million (Price 2014). Can his actions be justified and what was the end of the means he used? Stalin‚ as his predecessor Lenin‚ was mostly affected
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Wo Jun Shing History TO WHAT EXTENT WAS THE COLD WAR CAUSED BY TWO IRRECONCILABLE IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES? The Cold War was completely quiet a big disaster to the world. It was caused by the military tensions between The United States and its NATO allies with The Soviet Union with its allies. Instead of it‚ there are also several things that help caused the war‚ European countries were not stable back then‚ economical collapsed are everywhere‚ so does in America. The Iron Curtain also affects
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was the Yalta Conference in February 1945‚ at this point Stalin’s diplomatic position was greatly strengthened by the physical fact that the Red Army occupied most of eastern Europe. In the Yalta conference the Big Three powers were represented by Stalin‚ Roosevelt and Churchill. The matters being discussed in the Yalta Conference were very much the same as those discussed in the Tehran Conference in 1943‚ however the Big Three all agreed that the priority was the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany
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been the cause of the major deadly historical event. World War II was fought between two sides‚ the Allies and the Axis powers. In the Allies side consisting of the U.S‚ Soviet Union and the UK‚ with political leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill‚ fought the Axis Powers consisting of Germany‚ Japan and Italy‚ with political leaders Adolf Hitler‚ Hirohito and Benito Mussolini. The result of WWII was the Allies winning with the invention of the
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the leaders‚ Adolph Hitler and Stalin. During Adolph Hitler’s time‚ the government had absolute control over everything. This could also be called totalitarianism‚ which was frowned upon by 1984’s author‚ George Orwell. Hitler had complete power over the daily life‚ hunger‚ and even the "vaporization" mentioned in 1984. Big Brother‚ the omnipotent leader in 1984‚ also had complete and total jurisdiction over the lives of every character in the novel. Stalin‚ the second leader of the Soviet
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Sidimohammed Mbarki Professor Whittaker History 3352 Fall 05 Wanderings Through an Inferno: An Analysis of the Great Terror as Seen Through the Eyes of Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg The following paper will be an analysis of "The Great Terror‚" that is‚ the arrest and often execution of millions of Russian and Russian minorities from 1936 to 1938‚ carried out by the Soviet secret police‚ known as‚ and hereafter referred to as the NKVD. The analysis will use Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg’s‚
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marked use of statistics‚ questions‚ comparisons‚ contrasts‚ and quotations from many sources. Statistics make up a large part of Dillard’s rhetorical evidence. “Two million children die a year from diarrhea‚ and 800‚000 from measles. Do we blink? Stalin starved 7 million Ukrainians in one year‚ Pol Pot killed 1 million Cambodians‚ the flu epidemic of 1918 killed 21 or 22 million people… shall this go on?” Dillard bombards us with overwhelming numbers to get an emotional pull out of the reader‚ and
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Putin’s presidency has always retained elements of theatricality. Ever since his inauguration‚ the State orchestrates every public appearance he makes in order to portray him as a robust figure that contrasts starkly from the decrepit Yeltsin. Putin’s power‚ after he instituted the “vertical of power” and picked all the members of his advisory body‚ is minimally regulated: if he wants something he just takes it and does not explain his rationale to anyone (Dawisha 272-273). In this regard‚ he is
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