I enjoyed reading Animal Farm. Orwell's creative writing style draws you into the book and it's hard to stop reading. I also enjoyed the characters of the book. As the book ... the unrealistic but politically less powerful figure (Trotsky and Snowball) is expelled from the revolutionary state by the cruel and aggressive possessor of power (Stalin and Napoleon). Animal Farm is a stinging review of the history and expression of the Russian Revolution. Retelling the story of the appearance and development of Soviet communism in the form of an ... animal fable. In a sense the pigs are the govern...

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... Old Major dies just as Trotsky did with Stalin after Lenin died. The events that would show the relationship between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution is the Great Purge, collective system, and the destruction of religion. I feel that because of totalitarianism, Russia and Animal ... not become the utopia people or animals had hoped for. Instead, it corrupted the rulers and destroyed many innocent lives. In Animal Farm Napoleon ruled through fear, as did Stalin in his time. They both also ruled through deception by twisting things around so that they ... look good. Lastly, both liv...

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... . Peasant's farms were taken away without compensation and made into "collective farms." The idea of collective farms was to make all of the farms into one large farm to increase the efficiency of the farm. These farms were run under the supervision of the government. Peasants were quickly angered by the new system of collective farms and rebelled against the government. The ... complaints from the peasants were ignored and the "collective farm" system continued. By the end of the first five year plan, many peasants had died because of food shortage. Even though the collective farms were...

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... all around the country and transport and communications flourished with huge new waterways being built e.g. Baltic- White Sea Canal and the Moscow- Volga Canal. Russia was only importing 10% of farm machinery needed compared to the 80% imported in the beginning of the plans. Production doubled in electricity, coal and steel industries and there was virtually no unemployment. Education and healthcare ... ...

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... reliability of members. Members began to accuse each other of being supporters of Trotsky or of Zinoviev. There were purges as early as 1928 where engineers, industrialists, farmers and state farm officials who were put on a public show trial and they were either executed or sent to prison. Charges ranged from Sabotage to political crimes, to spying. The horrific purges continued ... ...

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... power (Purge 2). This date is now considered to be the start of the Russian purge trials. Stalin used the assassination as a way to show the world that there was a great plot to overthrow his rule of Russia (Purge 2). He then had everyone involved with the assassination and anyone close to Kirov put on trial and found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow ... ...

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