Vladimir Lenin

In Yekaterinburg, Russia, there was a family that got executed. Czar Nicholas the 11 and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks family. Thus bringing an end to the three century old Romanov dynasty. Nicholas Romanov was crowned in 1896. He being one of the many rulers was never trained to rule. Which did not help him with the people. After the big horrible Russo-Japanese war there was an even bigger Revolution, and this was the Russian Revolution of 1905. The Russian Revolution…

mere suspicion. Both Lenin and Stalin feared any source of counter authority, and exhibited this fear by employing the secret police agencies to destroy and suppress the opposition, no matter how brutally. These brutal methods, wether successful or not, certainly inspired fear in Russian citizens, and the secret police adopted a persona as a weapon of the state. Although the KGB and its counterparts started off as brutal, yet fairly disorganized and vague institutions,…

novel, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, a group of animals succeed in taking over their farm from their previous owner, but later on, they eventually succumb to the greedy feelings of humans. During the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power from the czarist rule and destroyed all opposition, ending the rule of the Romanovs. The symbols of Napoleon and the pigs, and the nonfiction research of the Russian Revolution and the teachings of Karl Marx show why people…

and a transition to communism. Initially, Lenin had been at the forefront of the revolution. He had turned the vision of revolution into a reality, promising liberation for the downtrodden. A heart attack that caused his death in the mid 1920s created a power vacuum inside the Communist Party, which held the power in the newly formed Soviet Union. The hole that Lenin left was filled by Joseph Stalin, a revolutionary who had been a steadfast ally of Lenin for the past two decades. Effectively…

A powerful dictator named Joseph Stalin established a regime that focused to modernize the Soviet Union and destroy the Nazi hierarchy. Shortly after the death of Vladmir Lenin in December of 1879, Stalin gained control of the Communist Party, by assuming the role of General Secretary. Due to his decision to control the agriculture, famine swept across the land killing millions in its path. The few exceptions were innocents captured and taken to camps. Leader of the Red Army, Stalin led his men…

from a massacre in 1905 which left hundreds wounded in the streets. Winds of change were high, and the political surge of communism left many workers feeling the need for revolution. The leaders of these communists were bright thinkers such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Pavel Dybenko. To revolutionaries, obedience is key to political unrest. In order to gain anything in the revolution, one must hound obedience away from traditional…

n 1887 the British historian and politician, Lord Acton wrote “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” In the next half century this was proven true by the corruption of the ideals of revolutions across Europe leading to tyrannical regimes in the place of the oppressors they reviled. At the end of World War One, Europe was wracked by revolution caused by the death of empires. This seismic shift was felt strongest in Russia though at this time all of Europe of was in a…

animals, where humans would not be present and animals lived together in peace. This reflects the Communist ideals of a society without poverty, and where every person would be treated equally. Old Major then dies, which represents the death of Vladimir Lenin. The takeover of the three pigs Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer is similar to the takeover of Joseph Stalin. The three pigs lay down the core principles of Animalism, and the animals enthusiastically accept them, which is similar to the…

Mr. Molotov’s Life of War According to Nikita Khrushchev, “Molotov took the name hammer just as Stalin had taken the name steel, and Stalin did indeed use Molotov to smash his opposition into submission and to pound his own power base into shapes” showing that Molotov was a tool for construction that Stalin used as he saw fit. Vyacheslav’s original last name was Skryabin, but changed it to Molotov which literally meant the hammer. Molotov was arrested and banished twice in his lifetime, once…

specifically uses pigs to represent the leaders of the Russian Communist movement during the early 20th century. Old Major, known for his inspiration of change, represents Vladimir Lenin, a Russian political revolutionary and communist who developed Leninism. Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, who was directly inspired by Lenin and Marx. In the same way Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union, Napoleon was the dictator of Animal Farm. Snowball, who was power hungry and enriched in…