Vladimir Lenin

Gorky’s The Mother is a novel that includes socialist view on the problems of the Russian society of Russian empire, he mostly focuses on the struggles and the efforts of the lower classes, and surprisingly focuses on the inner circle of a woman’s life. The novel takes place in early days 20th century, todays Russia Gorky’s efforts shows us the level of corruption in the society back then. In 1905, after the failed socialist Russian revolution, many socialist authors seemed new arguments to…

The next source is a fragment from the Piskarev Chronicle, in which the oprichnina is depicted as division of towns, Boyars and courtiers as a punishment ‘from God through the fury of the tsar for the sins of people.’ In the passage, the clique of Ivan IV who were instrumental in the implementation of the new order such as Vasilii Mikhailov Iur’ev and Aleksei Basmanov are represented as ‘evil men.’ The source also mentions that the tsar resided beyond the river in Petrovka, and his special corps…

During the Russian Civil War (1918-1923) between the Red Army (Bolsheviks) and White Army (counter-revolutionaries), the Soviet Union experienced two vastly differing economies, both incredibly significant for the country. The earlier of the two economic policies - War Communism - was more of a purist’s communism, whereas the later reforms - the New Economic Policy - were a more socialist view on Russia’s economy, which the Bolsheviks were forced to impose due to loss of widespread public…

In the final paper, I plan to explore what leads Russian intelligentsia participating in the 1870s-1880s populism movement to use violence as the main form of political struggle. After the failure of nihilism to bring about social changes that addressed the frustrated expectations following the emancipation of serfs, populism took over as the dominant orientation of the intelligentsia. As before, the intelligentsia regarded as their responsibility to improve the social, economic and moral…

Biographical Lens George Orwell is the author of Animal Farm and he wrote it based off of what was going on in his life at that time. George Orwell was only his pen name because the publisher wanted to conceal his true identity. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. He wrote Animal Farm in 1944 but it was only published in 1945 because nobody would publish it for its insult to Stalin. In the 1930's Orwell fought for the communists in the Spanish Civil War against their fascist leader. However,…

Bloody Sunday triggered a reaction that speeded up the tempo of psychological change in the country. It had strengthened faith in possibility of change and encouraged a greater spirit in the conception of what could be changed. The discontent and anger among people had accumulated, resulting a big wave of strikes among the workers of all occupations. The labor strikes promoted the liberation of movement to greater boldness against the government. The movement challenged the officials and proved…

Throughout A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, the main character, Ishmael, faces many challenges and conflicts. These conflicts made Ishmael’s journey tough to get through. Throughout his journey, Ishmael faces villagers and rebels. Ishmael’s journey takes place in Sierra Leone, where rebels are trying to overthrow the government because of corruption and mismanagement of politics, and electoral violence. The rebels will do whatever it takes and will destroy anyone to reach their goal. The first…

It is amazing how some things can be so alike and yet so different. That is certainly shown in “1984” by George Orwell and “One flew over the cuckoo's nest” by Ken Kesey. Although these two books are different it is amazing how some of the themes and characters overlap. In 1984 their villain/main antagonist is a concept/group and in One flew over the cuckoo's nest their villain/main antagonist is also a concept. In George Orwell’s “1984” the villain is basically the party who is basically…

Between 1750 and 1846 there were many debates between liberals, conservatives, and socialists over the proper role of government in the economy. Some examples of socialist debates were the different political parties such as the Communist party. Economic issues include the role of government and how active they should be in the economy. Lastly there were many influential people, such as Karl Marx and Klemens von Metternich, who had very strong views on socialism and conservatism causing…

The author of Animal Farm, George Orwell, had a goal in writing this novella, and that was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive than the government it overthrew. The novella was first published on the 17th of August, 1945, just 28 years after the revolution. Orwell used a variety of propaganda techniques to achieve his purpose and message in his written work, and that is to illustrate how easily people can be convinced by flawed ideas if…