One of Orwell’s goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive‚ totalitarian‚ and deadly than the one it overthrew. Many of the characters and events of Orwell’s novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution: In short‚ Manor Farm is a model of Russia‚ and old Major‚ Snowball‚ and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution. Mr. Jones is modeled on Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918)‚ the
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The Bolshevik takeover The fall of the Provisional government and the Bolshevik Revolution sparked many changes for Russia in 1917. It changed Russia for always. The economic system changed from a capitalist system to a socialist economy‚ peasants were granted the land that they already took in the February/March revolution and it ended the war and made peace in Russia. The lead up to the revolution can be traced back as far as March during the February/March revolution of 1917. In March of 1917
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Churchill’s attitude to Communism What does this source tell us about Churchill’s attitude to Communism? Source A – Speech by Churchill to the United Wards Club luncheon at the Canon Street Hotel in London‚ 4 November 1920 According to Mr. H.G. Wells who has just returned from Russia‚ the whole apparatus of civilization in Russia has collapsed. Cities are dying‚ and dying fast: railways are breaking up: manufactures and commerce of all kinds are at a standstill. Mr. Wells suggests that
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How far did Stalin’s social policies change the lives of women and children in the years to 1945? Following Stalin’s succession to power in 1929‚ once again‚ Russia was transformed. As part of Socialism in One Country‚ Stalin focussed his intentions internally. This involved the notorious industrialisation and collectivisation drives which were intended to reform the economy. Nevertheless‚ do so‚ Stalin realised he would have to create a more ordered and disciplined society. Consequently‚ as
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And they all confessed ... IN 1936‚ TERROR REIGNED in the Soviet Union and Anna Akhmatova wrote: "I have seen faces consumed‚ glimpsed horror under lowered eyelids‚ cheeks etched by pain." Even André Gide observed after his visit to the Soviet Union in 1936: "In my opinion‚ no country today not even in Hitler’s Germany is the spirit more suppressed‚ more timid‚ more servile than in the Soviet Union." Or‚ as brigade commander S. P. Kolosov whose final fate is unknown expressed it in an anything
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To what extent did the Tsarist and Soviet regimes rely on terror and repression to maintain order and control between1855-1964? From the reign of Alexander the lll terror and repression has been widely used as a mean of control. Under the Tsar they were not used as much as their successors but they were used especially with Alexander lll with Russification (Okhrana)‚ and the counter reforms also with Nicholas ll (Okhrana) with bloody Sunday. Under the leadership of Lenin repression and terror persisted
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How far do you agree with the view that the origins of the Cold War in 1945 and 1946 owed much to ideological differences and little to personalities and conflicting national interests? The Cold War marked a period of hostility between the superpowers; USA (and by extension‚ the West) and the Soviet Union. The hostility began after the Second World War‚ despite the supposed camaraderie between the two superpowers during the war as allies against Hitler and Fascism. Whether the schism between the
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The events which unfolded within Russia throughout the early 20 th Century led not only to political and economic change‚ but also social upheaval which similarly ran parallel to the international crisis of the time. From the moment of the Tsar’s abdication in March 1917 the Bolshevik party had sought to strengthen its control within Russia alongside promoting the spread of socialism and world revolution by the peasantry. Yet‚ with Lenin’s death and Stalin’s rise to power‚ there seemed to be
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Soviet economy First‚ let’s see what conditions the Soviet economy had at its launch. It is known that Tsarist Russia was at one of the last places among the capitalist countries to produce industrial products per capita. In the middle of the 20th century‚ far ahead of Russia in terms of industrial production were the United States‚ Britain‚ Germany‚ and France. In tsarist Russia‚ cars‚ tractors‚ combines‚ powerful steam and gas turbines‚ diesel locomotives‚ electric locomotives‚ equipment for various
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The Populist party was a party created primarily to express the agrarian protest‚ in some states the party was known as the People’s Party. This party originated due to the Panic of 1873‚ where the economic welfare of farmers suffered badly; many believed that the management of currency was at fault. Farmers formed alliances in order to get their word out to the people and the government‚ their main reason farmers were agitated was because they wanted railroad regulation‚ tax reform‚ and unlimited
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