... Lenin had to deliver the three promises he made to the country. To start off Lenin gave up much of the country to Gremany, and to add to that it was the industrial part that he gave to them. When the Brest-Litovsk treaty was sighed it stopped Germany from attacking Russia, that brought him the peace. This was a very smart move by Lenin because he knew that the Germans were going to lose the war so ... once the allies won he ... would re-claim the land. For the land part he just handed land to the ... ...

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... of human nature. It may even be said that greed is the "ultimate scrooge" of human nature. Nearly everyone dreams of being financially secure and being able to better themselves materialistically. This is the driving force behind the theory of capitalism. The society that we as Americans live in today perpetuates the need for greed through the voice of the media. Expensive clothes, overly-excessive accessories, and nice cars ... would have identical possessions. Everyone would be, in a sense, equal. We would live in a communist society. While the theory of socialism and communism may l...

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How did Lenin Revise Marxism? Lenin was a great believer in Marx work and almost completely agreed with every word of his work. He did however realise that slight amendments could be made in order to create a communist state more efficiently. Lenin revised Marx's ideas so that a communist revolution could be introduced quicker and in Russia. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik party meaning ... and this is his first revision of Marxism. Marx believed that a in order for there to be a revolution there had to be a strong divide between the rich (the bourgeoisie) of the nation and the...

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... planned himself into a stronger position by allying with Zinoviev and Kamnev. He then manipulated them into shattering Trotsky, which eliminated the biggest threat to Stalin's path to power. After Stalin came to power, he came up with a plan for economic growth. The plan was called the Five-Year Plan. The goal of the Five-Year plan was to increase the country's industrial production. Stalin called for the collectivization of farmlands, and hoped ... by doing that, it would produce enough food for ... ...

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... the majority shifted to the Socialist Revolutionaries. Realizing the power that the Bolsheviks had must be maintained, Lenin dissolved the assembly, which further weakened the relationship with the people. During the summer of 1918, a new civil war had begun. The problem for the Bolsheviks was that they were engaged in a crippling war with the rest of the country. The Bolsheviks found it difficult to rule the country when they were constantly faced with being over thrown by ... another party. An army known as The Whites began to quickly grow. These eighteen self-proclaimed governments w...

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... class who depended on the consistent demands made to the government for social change. The nation of Britain developed several political responses to protect the rights and improve the terrible conditions of the urban working class. The policy that they had adopted of laissez-fair made the government reluctant to pass regulations of hours and conditions for the workers that became a new social group, "the industrial working class". The Luddites led by New Ludd in ... movement. France's realities were also better due to the low rates of population growth. French birth rates had already b...

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... Lenin appointed Stalin position of general secretary, which he took advantage of by using the information he held about people to blackmail them into supporting him. After giving Stalin this position, Lenin suffered a stroke that was followed by a period of illness in which he was unable to rule. The two main candidates to take Lenin's place were Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin despised Trotsky and did ... all he could to get the members of the Central Committee to support himself over Trotsky. Trotsky was a great intellectual however, was not able to tolerate people of lower intelligence. S...

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... question of the distribution of wealth: "The is a growing number of Beggars and wandering poor in the streets of the city How often have our streets been covered with Thousands of Barrels of Flour for trade, while our near Neighbors can hardly procure enough to make a Dumpling to satisfy hunger?" A Gary Nash study of tax lists showed that by the early 1770's, the top ... 5% of Boston's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city's taxable assets. The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America su...

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... soldiers committees that had been established during the euphoria of 1917. Desertion was made an offence punishable by death, and old Tsarist officers were enlisted to lead the fresh recruits (albeit under the watchful eye of political commisars). These measures, while enforced in a way similar to the coercive instruments of the old regime, are a perfect example of how the Bolshevik regime was able to understand its situation, and respond accordingly. Tsarism's inability ... much resembled its Tsarist regime predecessor, the Okhrana. The Okhrana had also performed the will of the ruling...

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... was an absolute mess. A country for only 40 years, the Prime Ministers of this ailing nation were changing every year or so, and the political system was not only doing nothing to help this predicament-it, ultimately, was the cause of much of the angst. But why? And for how long would it survive? The weakness of the political system in Italy was mainly based in selfishness ... . The way in which Italy was governed allowed self-interest at absolutely ... divided the country. The Risorgimento led to the removal of the Papal States from the Pope- he now only possessed the Vatican City. In ad...

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... future, would all hold to the general will. Marx claimed that they would "have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletarians as a whole." Then, of course, there is the abolishment of owning property, leaving inheritances, and so on. All control would be in the hands of the State. It is not shocking to see that communism is easily corruptible by its elitist leaders of the not so distant past ... (Lenin and Stalin et al). By doing so, the free market, which those who fully ... bought into the polarized views of Marx, saw as a capitalist monopoly, would be replaced with St...

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... for power. Let us not forget that when Lenin wanted Stalin to be fired Zinoviev saved Stalin from getting the sack, meaning Stalin was in debt to Zinoviev. This savior of Stalin convinced Zinoviev he had won the battle to succeed Lenin. But By 1929 Joseph Stalin was in complete control of Russia. Here are the reasons why. Firstly, Stalin's leading rival Leon Trotsky was very arrogant ... that Zinoviev saved Stalin from getting fired. If this hadn't happened then Stalin would be nowhere. I think that the second most important reason was that Stalin got rid off his enemies one by one whic...

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... still is succeeding. He left behind many followers; many people still believe his ideals, and laws. An Italian group called the Organization for the Construction of the Proletarian Party of Italy still follows Stalinism. They closed a seminar by saying: Long live the Soviet working class! Long live proletarian internationalism! Long live the immortal revolutionary doctrine, Marxism-Leninism! Eternal glory to great Stalin, the ... victorious figure head of communists all over the world! But in short, if Stalin were to rise to power today ... countries have changed their governments. He c...

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... written work was published after the revolution these slogans showed how practical the Russian people were, Lenin knew this and used it to his advantage. Lenin was a skilled man, he was a fantastic orator and was in touch with the Russian people, the Provisional government was the total opposite, this ignorance by the provisional government, made the Russian people side with Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Trotsky said, "If the peasants had not read ... the support grew for him and the Bolsheviks after the Petrograd uprising. The military offensive, the reaction of the Petrograd workers to th...

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... by rapid industrialization. Workers had a low standard of living and rebelled against poor working conditions (Perry 656). Mr. Jones loses his farm in a similar way; the animals are tired of their low standard of living. Old Major is the first animal to talk of rebellion and "Animalism." The old wise pig spreads his ideas throughout the animals, and they listen to him in belief. The people of the revolution looked up to ... resulted in a break down of the farm. In conclusion, the reader can identify the corresponding ideas of the Russian Revolution in Orwell's Animal Farm. The Russian r...

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... specific details of the meat packing process, Sinclair lost the focus of the readers. The public concerned itself more with the unsanitary meat than with the evils of capitalism. As Sinclair states, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." At this point, the removal of capitalism seems irrelevant to the readers, and socialism is not even in the picture. Sinclair's audience seems more likely to change the capitalistic system then ... . Sinclair wrote the book so that the conditions of the workers lives grew larger than the lives or the workers, however, it...

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... glorified Georgian's past. Georgia was an independent country until the Russian Tsars conquered it. One book that had a deep affect on Stalin was a book similar to that of Robin Hood. His name was Koba and he hated the Russians and avenged their crimes against the Georgians. His acts were very ruthless and bloody. Stalin began to call himself Koba and this caught on with his friends ... . He was later to take on this pseudonym when he was in hiding from the tsar's police. By 1894, Stalin had finished ... 1904, Stalin escaped from Siberia back to Tiflis and joined the Bolsheviks. Stalin ...

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... Communism. For example, there are many shots of the town functioning as a normal society, where in actuality pods have taken over the majority of the town's inhabitants. The town's populace looks normal on the exterior, yet are totally different people on the inside. This is quite similar to how American citizens could not tell who was Communist just by looking at them. The concept of covering up what seems strange and unusual ... is also present in the film. For instance, the police chief has an elaborate explanation concerning ... ...

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... 74% of iron ore and coal reserves. Denounced as a "betrayal of the Bolshevik proletariat" by Lionel Kochan, popular support for the Bolsheviks heavily decreased due to the large loss of territory and the professed surrender to Imperial Germany. Consequently, as the Bolsheviks only gained 24% of the vote in the elections of the Constituent Assembly in November, the Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly and abolished all opposing political parties from June 1918 onwards ... extremities consolidated Bolshevik power, as it is doubtful that the Reds would have triumphed against the...

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Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution The events that occurred in Russia after the Revolution clearly carry out the events in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Orwell's novel was written and published in 1946. It is about a farm in England in which the animals are irritated by the way they are treated so they start a revolution. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes ... stands for any human society. The revolution started by the animals parallel the Russian Revolution in its communist ideas and the power of corruption. The resemblanc...

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... what it is today. Mao Zedong believed in communism, he believed that China would be better off if its people were treated equally. Mao wanted the Chinese people to get rid of capitalism because the capitalist were getting richer and the workers were getting poorer. By bringing in communism he made it so the government could control the economic production; land factories, businesses etc on the behalf of the people ... . He knew that the peasants were the key to China and he used this to his advantage. Mao wanted China to have a "Cultural revolution" to get rid of old customs, old ideas, ...

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... the streets. Later with the coming of the revolution, the new landlord of their house is arrested and shot, depicting the coming to power of the communist party, as well as the violence used by the party to the counter revolutionaries. The Great Leap Forward portrays the importance of the community as a whole. Steel pans and pots are all collected in the homes to contribute to the revolution. Youqing, is killed during the smelting of the steel. During the last scene of the Cultural Revolution, the ... family's daughter dies of hemorrhaging after giving birth in a rural clinic due to the...

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... (DuBois calls it "the double consciousness") and after many years of fighting they finally found freedom and equality. The last thing I would like to write about is Karl Marx's Theory of class division. Marx said that we can split our society into two groups. One group called "bourgeoisie" was wealthy and powerful. The other, called "proletariat" was exploited by the upper class (bourgeoisie). ... People from the lowest class had to work very hard in the worst conditions just to earn some money ... for food. Those three concepts which I have described made me look on the world from a d...

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... connects literature and society by giving the reader the responsibility of creating their own definition, "the definition of literature [is] up to somebody [who] decides to read, not to the nature of what is written" (5). Through Eagleton's example, we are then introduced to society and its impact on literature. The influences of literature are universal and essential for society. To understand how society and literature relate, it is crucial to understand the impact of social influence ... in his "Allegory of the Cave" in Book VII of The Republic. The allegory tells of prisoners being ...

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... ; During the Russian Revolution, Russia suffered a similar event which resulted in a famine. Animal Farm allows us to study the Revolution from a different disposition. There are many aspects of human nature and society that are apparent in Animal Farm. For instance, greed is a part of human nature that cannot be restrained. This aspect is accurately portrayed by the pigs throughout the story. Vanity is another example of human nature, as is the case ... with Mollie and her ribbons. However, one of the main aspects of human nature and society is the issue of power and how it is exploited...

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