Vladimir Lenin

On Saturday April 1, 2017 the Venezuelan president and Supreme Court decided to repeal a move that would strip congress from its legislative powers. Protest began after the original ruling meant that Venezuela’s branches of government would be controlled by the socialist government. The change was big because it is rare for the president of Venezuela to change his mind about a decision. On Wednesday they decided to strip congress their legislative powers which would have given complete control…

citizen any behavioral traits that could be related to the bourgeois class. They felt that it was the best way to control ideologically the masses. Class-conscious work in this case means unconditional submission to the Marxism-Leninism principles. 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…

Latin America before this recent trend was seen as making economic progress and having improved democratic governance by many of the centrist governments. Although the nation has recently enjoyed its best two years of growth in a long time, times have changed and it seems Latin America has noticed this change. In Venezuela, all leaders, parties or movements that have been successful over the past eight years are generally labeled as “leftist.” Countries of Latin America also showed this trend,…

One should read Animal Farm because it allows one to imagine what it was like in Stalinist Russia. The book is an allegory for Stalinism in Russia. The novel is a modern-day tale warning against the cruelties and hypocrisies of the Communist Party. It shows how easily good intentions could be converted into tyranny. One might be compelled to read this book because they could be eager to learn about how people reacted to Stalinist Russia. Animal Farm subtly shows George Orwell’s views and…

The Persecution Napoleon was running the hill down; dogs were behind him, waiting his commandments. The dark sky was showing that a storm was to come. Snowball was running as well, his legs were tired, however his life depended on that. The fat pig, Napoleon knew that he could not run more than that, so he stopped and turned to his followers. “Comrades, I give you carte blanche to catch Snowball; I just need him alive, bring the pig to the cabana near to the lake. I will be there waiting for…

Decembrists were Russian revolutionaries and majority of them were army officers that returned to Russia with liberal ideas picked up in France following Napoleonic Wars (lecture, 10/5). Decembrists made a mistake of thinking that Nicholas I would be receptive to their ideas. However, he was a conservative. This one of the reasons to why the Decembrist uprising against the tsar Nicholas. Catherine's Legislative Commission of 1767 also played an important in this uprising. One of the commissions…

For Hitler, it was very important for people to be in work camps, which would prepare the Germen people for was. Stalin’s work camps were much different, focusing on building factories, where he forced peasants to become workers in these factories. The conditions of the workers under Stalin’s reign were terrible, and he mad the conditions for peasants even worse than previous. He changes the entire lifestyle of the peasants by forcing them to participate in collectivization, the policy in which…

During the First World War, Russia was really poor. They could barely afford bread. The poor Russians began to protest. Then some of the Soldiers fighting off the protesters. But some of the Cossacks were unreliable. Czar Nicholas II. (Russian monarch) Decided to shoot some of the protesters, which led to even more unrest with Russian Soldiers. Soldiers were treated badly, and on March, 1, they shot any Officer who didn’t want to rebel with them. They forced Russia's Czar, Nicholas II to step…

In both, Lenin and Old Major’s speech there are many similarities and differences. In Old Major’s speech he is talking about how the animal are not valued , when they really are, “ Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin” (Orwell, pg.8). In Lenin’s Speech he talks about how the working class people are not valued and do not receive enough recognition for how much they do, “ If it were not for us everything would collapse,…

This concluded the promise to the proletariat peace. After Lenin had returned to Russia the 'decree of peace' was issued by the government. This meant that Russia would have immediate peace, negotiations began on the 22nd of December. Germany had presented their demands in order for a peace agreement to occur. The…