October Revolution

Socialist Revolutionaries, and Bolsheviks Mensheviks which were the Social Democratic Party. They were big and unstoppable so Tsar made a secret police called ‘Okhrana’. They were the spies who murdered and exiled the oppositions. A few years later, revolution finally happened and the Winter Palace got surrounded. On the Sunday 22 January 1905, a huge amount of protesters came to the Winter Palace to say their hopes to Tsar. But the only thing the soldiers did was to fire without any warning or…

and by the time the Russian Revolution broke out he had become a well-known avant-garde poet. His work was frowned upon during the 1920s and 1930s when under the communist regime Joseph Stalin put strict censorship on Russian art and literature. It was during this time that Pasternak made a living as a translator. The novel that would make Pasternak known the world over was completed in 1956. “Dr. Zhivago” is an epic love story set during the time of the Russian Revolution and WW I. Soviet…

The chief cause of the Russian Revolution was Czar Nicholas II’s inability to run the government properly. There were plenty of circumstances that brought about the Russian Revolution. A few examples would be the bad economy, corruption within the government, and the Czar doing whatever suits himself (“Russian Revolution” History.com). With theses events, there was a loss in morale in citizens all across Russia. The citizens also lost hope in the government and the Czar. These events lead to an…

Dialectical Montage as a Vehicle for Political Messaging Sergei Eisenstein expertly uses dialectical montage to demonstrate the plight of Russians in the midst of the revolution in his silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925). Specifically in the massacre on the Odessa Steps scene, montage editing helps convey exaggerated feelings of fear and helplessness in the context of the political state in Russia; the famous and fictitious scene posits political unrest and terror associated with the…

Lenin, the Mastermind of the 1917 Revolution knew that in spite of the abolition of esclavage in 1861, throughout Russia many bourgeois had still very large estates with committed liberated-serfs trusting their old masters. Moreover, one of the Nicholas II ministers, Stolypin, promoted a far-reaching agricultural reform in 1905 that…

The lack of self-indulgence in Russia society In A Hero of Our Time written in 1839 by Mikhail Lermontov, a russian writer, painter, and poet. The novel takes place during the nineteenth century in Russia where the people of Russia were struggling with their government laws. As Russia society was still developing, Mikhail Lermontov jotted down the characters cowardness making readers able to analyze and comprehend the characters qualities and lack of self-sufficiency in the novel. Lermontov…

Orwell, being a prescient writer (Kennedy 2017), was able to contextualise the events of, and immortalise, the Russian Revolution, whilst alluding to the result of the Communist agenda that took power during his lifetime. Perhaps the most powerful literary device Orwell employs in Animal Farm is his use of allegory to characterise different parties of the Russian Revolution. For example, the tyrannic Mr. Jones can be seen as an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II, the overthrown…

” Well, here’s the consequence. With the pigs’ ability to read and write to a reasonably perfect extent, combined with Squealer’s way with words, it enabled them to take control of what were the original seven commandments of the farm after the revolution. “1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any other…

Crime and Punishment is a book set in Russia, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and focuses on a theme of alienation. The book starts when the main character- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov- goes to a pawnbroker,Alyona Ivanovna. While there Raskolnikov trades his watch for the money he needs to pay his rent and to plan out how he could rob Alyona. This entire sequence of events makes up the exposition of Crime and Punishment and introduces alienation as the theme. From there the rising action…

His main intention was to officially define communism and its true intention, which people still did not understand, while also conveying his predictions for an inevitable, future revolution in such a way that it could reach his target audience, the working class or the proletariats. His vision specifically portrays a Utopia, where he believes it is possible for classes to live in harmony without conflict or inequality. Ideally, this…