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Over the 30 years of Joseph 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…

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,…

The novel Runner is a coming of age story written by Robert Newton, published in 2005. Charlie Feehan, a bright 16 year old boy living a low class life in the suburb of Richmond in 1919, battling his father’s recent passing and other troubles that come with poverty. He falls into working for an infamous criminal ‘Squizzy Taylor’ to earn money for his family, but will soon realise through his love for running, his true destiny, with the help of his newfound father Mr. Redmond. Newton uses ‘boots’…

Throughout The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka the main characters change greatly, though Gregor’s father stood out the most. He progresses and regresses as the story continues, but it’s the almost immediate transformation aside from Gregor; He becomes violent, changes his attitude of life itself, and completely abandons Gregor. Gregor’s father beats down on the door and is curious as to why his son didn’t get up for work that morning (Kafka, pg. 16). Gregor had gone to work every day, he had done…

In the 1910’s and 1920’s Russia had a revolution. Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks into battle and overthrew Alexander Kerensky to be the new government in Russia. He wanted to start communism in Russia and did it. As for the United States, Americans were scared of communists and communists. They were scared that they would change the U.S. government and change U.S. life. Former President Woodrow Wilson’s attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer did not want any Bolshevik Revolution and at every…

In 1945, George Orwell wrote a dystopian and political satire called Animal Farm, a book which would reflect all the events leading to the creation of the Soviet Union. In the book, each animal/character is depicted as part of the soviet social structure. The Pigs, who are smarter, become the higher-ranking officials, Boxer becomes the ideal Communist worker, and the sheep, hens, and cows become the blind followers. Although animal farm is mostly a critique of Communism, animal farm can also be…

novel Animal Farm, many of the animals show to be influenced by the dominant figures in the Russian Revolution. Here I will be focusing on Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and how they can be compared to certain characters in the book. Lenin (1870-1924) Vladimir Lenin was a leading political figure and a revolutionary thinker who was often influenced by the ideology of Marxism and Karl Marx. He was ruthless but at the same time also rational and sensible. Old Major, although he is short-lived in the…

Literary Analysis in Animal Farm What if animals tried to takeover and run our society? In the novella Animal Farm by: George Orwell, the author based the animals off the communists in the war of 1918. The animals were rebelling from “Mr.Jones” there farm owner who had ran the Manor Farm. In the novel the farm animals wanted freedom and were tired of humans controlling their lives. The animals went into a rebellion and won a significant “battle of the cowshed” which had led into their…

Q6. After the Cold War, the Soviet Union would begin to go through a series of changes and reforms that would include some democratic forms of ideas. One man by the name of Mikhail Gorbachev would become the leader of Russia, while in office he would make several important reforms. Mikhail Gorbachev would learn about the Soviet Union’s system and its problems, he would then quickly work his way into the party. It was his goal to bring change into the Soviet Union which he would succeed at doing.…

World War I, had been a turbulent time for Russia and it was also an appropriate time for Lenin to return. Lenin had obtained money from the Germans who hoped that he would undermine the Russian war efforts. Lenin was warmly welcomed home and supported by other radical thinkers he led the Bolsheviks in the bloody violent Red October Revolution. Lenin, much to his surprise, effectively ended the Russian Empire relatively easily and assured the Soviet state would soon become a global superpower.…