... city workers did all the hard labor, while everyone from the soldiers to the nobles to the Tsar, lived off their hard work. They were promised equality through communism a "classless utopia." But they were just oppressed again under Bolshevik rule and then under the USSR with Stalin. As an example to show the oppression of the peasants in the post-revolutionary ... conclusion the new society of Russia, was a mockery of the original goals of Revolution, with the peasants and workers oppressed under ever major ruler, and the society never becoming a "classless utopia" just something that ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 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 Farm did 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 ... power, by scaring others so much that they would not dare do anything to displease the ruler. This cannot be what Marx or Old Major had in mind for their utopia society. As well as ruling through fear, the two ru...

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• Grade Level: High School

... repeating that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the only true Leninist method for eliminating capitalism. In addition, he breaks from his past writings in that he projects a vision of Utopia. He predicts that once capitalism is destroyed, people will be transformed from their selfish ways to a manner of cooperation and begin leading ethical lifestyles. As a result, police, courts, and laws ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate