Karl Marx

1
Karl Marx

• Created the Basis of Communism
• Called for revolution in the name of EQUALITY!
• Classless society

2
Czar Nicholas II

• Totalitarian Government/
• Tyrant
• Family was executed after the Revolution

3
Rasputin

• Trusted advisor to the Royal Family

4
Vladimir Lenin

• Led the Russian Revolution
• Voted the Chairman of the Council of People's
  Commissars of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist
  Republics)
• on 30 December 1922
• Leader of Communist Russian until his death in
  1924

5
Leon Trotsky

• Fought for leadership in the1920s against Stalin
• Forced to leave Russia
• Brutally murdered in 1940

6
Joseph Stalin

• Dictator of Communist Russia
• Tyrant
• Used KGB (Secret Police) to crush opposition.
• Ruled Communist Russia from 1925, until his death
  in 1953

7
George Orwell

• Author of Animal Farm
• Believed in the ideals of the communist manifesto
  (1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers
  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) and an utopian
  society- equality!