Child Of The Revolution Analysis

Leonhard and his memoir Child of the Revolution presented a totalitarian regime from the view of a citizen living under its reign. It showcased the psychological torment of those who lived the reign of Stalin, especially on those who had to teach the new generation the correct ways of the regime. Teachers had to avoid exposing the youth to anything that discredited Stalin and the Soviet Union as a whole. It was their job to teach the students in the way the state desired and lead them away from any “…enem[ies] of the people.” The pressure upon these teachers to remain biased against those who spoke out was stressful, terrifying, and ultimately toxic. To demonstrate this toxicity, Leonhard uses imagery to to express the psychological torture of living under the reign of a totalitarian dictator. Leonhard uses imagery to express the destructive mental impact on a person living in a totalitarian regime. People living in an indefatigable, totalitarian dictatorship undoubtedly live a life full of stress, especially if these people are in charge of manipulating the youth into blindly following this regime. There was pressure from the government placed upon these teachers to be perfect models for their students. The level of perfection was unobtainable for any human being, and often led …show more content…
He presents these terrifying truths through imagery. His memoir, Child of the Revolution, presents the struggle and mental strain of living under a totalitarian regime through his experiences in school. He watched as multiple teachers were arrested for simple errors and watched countless more live in terror. Leonhard lived through these events which makes it differ from other texts about this subject matter. Leonhard 's Child of the Revolution gave the world a view into the life of the silent majority, the population who suffered the wrath of Soviet