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Title: Animal Farm


1
Animal Farm
2
Russian Revolution
  • How It Started
  • Czar Nicolas II
  • Absolute power
  • Huge social gulf between the peasants and the
    land owner and the elite
  • Peasants and workers begin rebelling against the
    Czar in 1905

3
Bolshevik power
  • Vladimar Lenin was leader
  • Gained control in 1917
  • Had the Romanov family murdered in 1918
  • Wanted Communism

4
Communism
  • Comes from the root word of community
  • Equal distribution of wealth and possessions
    among Russias citizens

5
Lenin
  • Marxist revolutionist
  • Led Bolsheviks
  • Used the Red Guard to stop others from taking
    over Russia, then used it to take over Russia
    himself
  • Led a campaign of Red Terrorin 1918 - a
    systematic plot to execute opponents of communism

6
Lenin
  • Created a New Economic Policy
  • Allowed for limited private ownership of land
    and business
  • Called it breathing space for Communism to
    prevail

7
Lenin
  • Moved capital to Moscow
  • Renamed Russia to Soviet Union in 1922
  • Named his party the Communist party in 1917
  • October Revolution killed many to gain control
    and instate Communism

8
Lenin
  • Named Joseph Stalin -Secretary General
  • Powerful position in Communist party
  • Ability to make appointments to other positions
    of power
  • Ability to gain important allies

9
Lenin
  • 1922- Lenin suffers paralyzing strokes
  • Removed from leadership position
  • 1924- Lenin dies
  • Stalin and Trotsky struggle for power

10
Stalin wins!
  • Stalin out-maneuvers Trotsky and gains control
  • Stalin starts to isolate Trotsky within the party
    because he is a threat

11
Leon Trotsky
  • Gifted speaker and writer
  • Political genius
  • Tried to end Russian involvement in WWII
  • Great thoughts and plans but had trouble actually
    installing them
  • Was not liked by Lenin

12
Joseph Stalin
  • 1924- Assumes full control after Lenin dies
  • Ruled as absolute dictator throughout WWII and
    until his death in 1953

13
Stalins Repression Terror
  • Terrorized country with widespread arrests and
    executions
  • Anyone thought to be opposed to Stalin and
    Communism was executed on the spot

14
Reign of Terror
  • 1934 great purges and show trials
  • Sent millions to Soviet labor camps
  • 2-7 million innocent citizens are murdered
  • Forced confessions
  • Public accusations

15
Reign of Terror
  • Employed KGB to repress any opposition
  • Used publications to report statistics
    inaccurately in his favor

16
Stalin
  • 1928 First Five Year Plan
  • Attempt to make Russia a modern industrial state
  • Comrades need to work harder so Soviet Russia
    can be a beacon of hope to workers everywhere

17
Stalin in Power
  • 1933 Second Five Year Plan- emphasized rapid
    growth of Soviet Industry
  • This worked fairly well, by the end Soviet Russia
    was a formidable world power

18
Secret Agreement
  • German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact secret
    agreement between Stalin and Hitler
  • Neither country would attack each other

19
Liar!
  • Hitler lied!
  • 1941- Operation Barbarossa
  • Germany fully attacks Russia!

20
Symbolism
  • Animal Farm
  • Napoleon
  • Animalism
  • Russian Revolution
  • Stalin
  • Communism

21
Allegory
  • Underlying meaning and surface meaning
  • Grand in scope

22
Fable
  • A short story that has a moral and has animals as
    characters

23
Satire
  • A story that makes fun of something

24
George Orwell
  • Real name Eric Blair
  • Disapproved of Communism
  • A socialist

25
George Orwell
  • Communism was not pure socialism because
  • Gulf in society
  • Control of the peasants
  • Hypocritical

26
George Orwell/author
  • Used his writings to communicate a political
    message
  • Wrote 1984
  • Big Brother rules a society
  • Everyone is watched 24 hours a day
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