In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... Jones (who represents the Tzars), is not evil in itself, Napoleon's understanding of nearly all of Mr. ... The seven commandments the pigs paint on the outer walls of the barn represent the shared memory of a modern nation. ... The pigs' decision that Snowball is responsible for the windmill's first collapse represents the psychological manipulation the pigs are capable of. ... From a symbolic point of view, the windmill represents the enormous transformation projects undertook in Soviet Russia ...

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Being an allegory, most of the characters and events have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snowball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. ...

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In addition to describing the evils of capitalism, Marx elaborates the social changes communists hope to effect on behalf of the proletariat. ... Unlike other working class parties, communism has an international basis and consistently represents the working class interests. ...

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Although trade unions were formed to fight for better working conditions and fair wages, they represented a very small portion of an ever growing working class. ... Places where the evils were not necessarily those of capitalism but those of an Old Regime. ...

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These groups were not dealt with in detail as the essay represents (as best fits the constraints of this task) a general outline of major shifts in popular opinion, and not a detailed analysis of the entire historiography. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, represents earlier interpretations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. ...

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Comparative Economic Systems It would be extremely easy to state that economics is an area of study that seeks efficient use of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants and that economic systems simply refer to the outcomes of economic activities, which are influenced by social, natural and political settings. However, it is clear that economics goes far beyond utilizing resources or levels of development and by comparing different economic systems one can analyze their importance and influence on other sectors of society. Apart from affecting other sectors, an economic system is also ...

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