... only be looked at as a great piece of literature with philosophical value. Communism, in practice, is something that has been tested and has failed. The flaws of the human mind have distorted it so that instead of the utopian society that Marx predicted, there exists a totalitarian society, which is supposedly Communist. In each country where communism has existed, it has turned into a tyranny and its ... citizen's human rights have been compromised. As the dictator's power grows stronger, it is clear that the citizen's power grows weaker. In Russia, China, North Korea ... had in mind....

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... by the system. It can be said that how these communist regimes have governed is quite contrary to what Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would have envisioned in their utopian communist societies. Their views would have included absolutely no private property, goods would be owned by the public and a classless society would have been created. Although many of these regimes accomplished some of these ... -Leninist communism in its true sense. In order to more clearly understand this issue it is necessary to take a more detailed look at how communism has thus far been badly implemented, what ar...

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... they did not know where to go with the country. The winning of this class war was Mark's utopian fantasy, so while Lenin and Trotsky tried to figure out what to do after winning the social war, Stalin was eventually allowed to rise to power. While Stalin somewhat ... five years into the future using these legislative acts. He aimed to make Russia militarily and industrially self sufficient, build a foundation for a worker's society, and expel the stereotype of Russia as being "backward ". To administer these economic changes, he created an agency called the Gosplan, which decided upon .....

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... irrational residues of the old feudal order, considering every aspect of social and political life in specific constitutional provisions (Mazower 7). There were too many "utopian schemes."" The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes insisted "there is only one nationality for all the subjects of the Kingdom (Mazower 8). Skepticism of the government came from all angles because of the legal aspects of ... them citations and monetary rewards. National health was a main focus of the state with the government trying to encourage "racial health."" A handbook was given out in Germany, which...

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... example of rebellion against the government. It goes on for some time. Winston rents a room where he and Julia can be secluded from the "utopian" community called Oceania. They meet a man named O'Brien who reveals that he too is a revolutionary. Winston and Julia go to his house to meet with him. O'Brien gives them a treasonable book to read. Soon after it was ... for the next 9 months. O'Brien tortures Winston in stages. The first two stages are to force the party's beliefs on him, and then learn and understand what is expected of him. In the third stage, Winston is made to face what h...

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... noticed to be making art for the masses. To a new government who were wrestling with such questions as how to shape the new Soviet society and what people needed to be taught (so as to become proper soviet citizens), these artists looked like they had the ability and intelligence to fulfil the ... Tower and was far too expensive to build anyway. A double concentric spiral form thrust into the sky at a 70degree angle to symbolise the new society reaching for the utopian goal. It was to be one third of a mile high and house a gigantic sphere, cube and prism. There were quite a few constru...

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... to be making art for the masses. To a new government who were wrestling with such questions as how to shape the new Soviet society and what people needed to be taught (so as to become proper soviet citizens), these artists looked like they had the ability and intelligence to fulfil ... and was far too expensive to build anyway. A double concentric spiral form thrust into the sky at a 70degree angle to symbolise the new society reaching for the utopian goal. It was to be one third of a mile high and house a gigantic sphere, cube and prism. There were quite a few ... monumental public a...

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... revolution had of course, ended the repressive Tsarist regime and signalled the end for the Romanov dynasty. So things were looking good for the people. Utopian visions of a democratic state seemed almost tantalisingly achievable. Until Lenin appeared with attractive slogans like, "Peace, Bread. Land". He had become convinced ... as an almost "bloodless coup". The blood was shed thereafter and a state far more powerful than the one it replaced emerged. Essentially, what the Bolsheviks wanted was as much opposed to the real desires of the people, as had been the policies of the provisional...

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... . He in turn devoted his energy to writing such novels as Animal Farm as well as 1984. The basis of this novel is a negative utopian world, or a dystopian genre. The author has used research from his experiences and opinions of the dictatorship style of government. It goes into the ... future of what could happen if the world was based on this principal of governing. He used this form of writing to show the worst possible society to avoid ... Golden Land a dream of his where he makes love to the dark haired girl he meets at a Hate session. The Party's control of the past is also a signi...

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... animals and events have certain parallels in Stalinist Russia. Even the minor characters of the story symbolize relevance with Russian history. Another key term mentioned, irony, describes the disjunction between what the audience would expect, and what really happens. Orwell uses a certain type of irony in Animal Farm, referred to as dramatic irony. He takes full use of ... are modified to form only one rule - "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" (112). This rule is evident in reality, particularly when the animals peered through a window of the barn house: "No ...

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... animals and events have certain parallels in Stalinist Russia. Even the minor characters of the story symbolize relevance with Russian history. Another key term mentioned, irony, describes the disjunction between what the audience would expect, and what really happens. Orwell uses a certain type of irony in Animal Farm, referred to as dramatic irony. He takes full use of ... are modified to form only one rule - "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" (112). This rule is evident in reality, particularly when the animals peered through a window of the barn house: "No ...

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