Leon Trotsky

Set Centuries apart in completely different points in time, two artists in particular Frida Kahlo and Judith Leyster created individual masterpiece self-portraits. Considered as one of Mexico’s greatest artists alive, Frida started painting after suffering injuries in a bus accident (Bio). Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality (The Complete Works). As rare in…

What is the cost of people losing freedom when under Stalin's communist regime it is estimated that 20 million people died?The book animal farm goes into detail in how a lack of freedom is due to both sides.A leader is supposed to delegate a country it's the people job to make sure he is doing what's in their best interest Napoleon is an intelligent pig with a need for power and will do what he has to take and keep that power.His traits are that he is manipulative and boorish he also has a…

The author George Orwell, created the character, Napoleon in the novel The Animal Farm. Napoleon proves to be corrupt, vicious and contriving. He is created as a perfect model of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and is characterized on the basic principles of Stalinism. The rule of Napoleon represents the corruption of socialist ideologies. Firstly, one must know about Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was a Soviet leader, he administered the Soviet Union for over a quarter century. He was one of the…

. How did Frida's painting style change over time? For example, when did she primarily begin to paint self-portraits? What did they typically depict? Kahlo’s pictures express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera’s occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her…

Norman Naimark argues in Stalin’s Genocides that the dekulakization, the Holodomor, attacks on enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get…

needed to get rid of his enemies, as Machiavelli agrees with. Once he took power from the Communist Party, “he allied with Trotsky 's personal enemies to crush his rival, and then moved against all who might challenge his ascendancy, including former allies,” (A History of Western Society 903). This was a wise move, as he would no longer have to deal with the threat of Trotsky, or the party anymore. He also knew how to manipulate his citizens propaganda. He had control over what everyone was…

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm and the Russian revolution have many similarities and differences. Many of the characters from the story represent very important historical figures from the Russian revolution. Most of the events from the book are actual events from the Russian revolution. Not all events that happen in the book Animal Farm and actual events from the Russian revolution but most are. In my opinion the…

clear that global socialism, thought to be necessary to reach communism, would be impossible to achieve any time soon. Nicholas Bukharin led the Right-leaning communists, saying that Russia should not force socialism because the world is not ready. Trotsky, on the Left, believed that the Soviet Union should support revolutions abroad while at the same time supporting socialist reform in their own country. Stalin, in the Center, declared that socialism could survive in Russia without the need for…

The true meaning of being a leader is to serve others before themselves. An efficient leader must never be self-centered and must always be concerned with their follower’s best interests before their own. In the Animal Farm, the animals were led to believe that the humans were the reason beside all of their misery from being on the Manor Farm. Napoleon, the main tyrant, started using his newly gained power to only benefit himself and stray away from Old Major’s original ideas. As a leader,…

"Four legs good, two legs bad" The conflict between four legs good and two legs bad is certainly present in Animal Farm, a novel written by George Orwell a British political novelist born in 1903 who lived in India during the time it was colonized by the British. The novel was first published on August 17 1945 and is an allegory for the Russian Revolution in 1917 and, then on into the Stalin era of Soviet Union. Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin. Animal Farm begins…