Vladimir Lenin

The pigs in the book Animal Farm were horrible leaders. Orwell, the author, introduces many poor characteristics of a bad leader when he writes about how the pigs. The pigs try and change the commandments to what they wanted them to be, make lies about different animals so that people believe him, and all the pigs wanted to do their separate thing that did not involve the other animals. Nelson Mandela was the total opposite as the pigs because he was a good leader in trying to help South Africa.…

Rough draft The book Animal Farm by George Orwell was written as an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Throughout the story different animals represent one of the major parts or people of the Revolution. For example, Napoleon represented Joseph Stalin, Squealer represented the propaganda being used, and Boxer represented the working class during that time. The animals revolution failed for many reasons throughout the book. Some of these reasons are that the power wasn’t equally spread out with…

At the end of the last ice age, animals and people gathered around the great river valleys, like Egypt and Mesopotamia. When the number of animals decreased, agriculture began. Herodotus remarked that Egypt is the gift of the Nile which provided annual floods water and the alluvial deposits. The groups of farmers, villages and clans, near the Nile, were united around higher authorities. According to Ponting, This was the first step for incorporation to civilization which was followed by growth,…

By 1861, Russia had been and would remain a backwards country. Russia possessed a large population and adequate land, both of which had combined to eliminate the urgent need for industrialization that had affected Western Europe. With its primarily agrarian economy and autocratic government, Russia struggled to catch up with the rest of the modernizing countries in Europe. In this historical context, Tsar Alexander II’s 1861 emancipation of all Russian serfs was a shocking first in a series of…

Snowball vs Napoleon Napoleon and Snowball are two of the main characters in the story. Both pigs, Napoleon being of larger size but Snowball being more articulate and able to come up with more ideas and is very vivid. Both characters strive for the title of "leader" after Mr. Jones is removed from the farm. Both agree on their theory of "animalism" and their seven commandments by which the farm shall be run, but agree on very little of anything else. Snowball is viewed as the ideal…

Sergei Witte was the first Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, he was responsible for the attempt of the idea of rapid industrialization in the Russian Empire, the reasoning Russia was in desperate need for rapid industrialization was for the cause of Russia have being falling behind with the rest of Europe in terms of technological advancement which was proven after the Crimean War which resulted in a loss for the Russian Empire. He played a grand role in the effort for…

The Rise and Fall of Jund’s Kingdom Lieutenant Jund was headed to the gallows, back to square one. However, he had to look back to where he went wrong while acting as King of Prussia. Where did he make one false step? Where he abandoned the peasants for the nobility to save himself? Where he declared war on Russia? Where he lied to the peasants about the promised reforms and economic stability? Jund had to go back to the very beginning, when he had King Frederick William at his knees. 5 years…

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union. He was born December 18, 1878. His rule over the Soviet Union lasted from 1924 through 1953. Lenin founded the Soviet Union. Rapidly Stalin had industrialized the Soviet Union in time for World War 2. Stalin was once one of the top leaders of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin had a rough childhood. His father was a poor shoemaker and made little money. His father was an alcoholic and abused Stalin when he was a child. Stalin’s original name was…

Stalin’s dictatorship, the estimated death toll ranged from 28 to 40 million people, whom died from a variety of things, such as famine, executions, and a very large war. Stalin assumed autocratic rule of the Soviet Union in 1924 following the death of Lenin. Stalin made a variety of reforms, but his main focus was on the economic issues that was occurring in the communist country at the time. Stalin made his economic reforms solely to make the most amount of money possibly, even if millions…

Joseph Stalin was a very unjust leader, as all tyrants are. A trait that Stalin had that converges with Plato’s Republic is that Stalin was very paranoid of becoming one of his own, a slave. “Therefore, the real tyrant is, even if he doesn’t seem so to someone, in truth a real slave to the greatest fawning and slavery.” (Bloom, 579d). Stalin abused his power to reap benefits that others could not obtain. Being the devious man that he was, he forced his opposition to withdraw from competing,…