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…George Orwell's novel Animal Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution. The animals…

…that Marx had originally hoped for. Karl Marx’s ideas, although complete, did not form the sole basis for the Russian Revolution. Vladimir Lenin extended Marxism and made it more comprehensible for the masses, augmenting it into Marxist-Leninism. Lenin said…

…When Lenin died on January 21st, 1924, Stalin did everything he could to build his own reputation. He delivered the eulogy, had Lenin's body mummified, and saw to the building of a Lenin Library and a Lenin Museum. A photograph was created (a fake made…

…because of many reasons; some were due to his own abilities and strengths whereas others were due to the weaknesses of his opposition, particularly Trotsky. When Lenin died in 1924 Stalin was already in a position of power, he had been appointed General…

…power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. Stalin’s main goal was to maximize his personal power. (“Stalin,” Britannia 576). Stalin “whipped” his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying…

…that Napoleon used in the farmyard to wield power can be compared to the power that Stalin used on the Russians. Napoleon carried a whip in his trotter. Stalin used his power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. "Stalin's main goal…

…used in the farmyard to wield power can be compared to the power that Stalin used on the Russians. Napoleon carried a whip in his trotter. Stalin used his power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. "Stalin's main goal was to maximize…

…the Mensheviks, against the rights, and ‘evils’ of private ownership went underway in February of 1917. With the end of WWI, and the beginnings of the Russian Revolution underway, Lenin opted to take sides with the Germany in the systematic removal of all private land…

…the misery of workers once and for all.” Lenin’s own interpretation of the Marxian critique was that to achieve Communism there would first have to be a socialist dictatorship to first suppress any dissent or protest. Through coercive tactics this new government…

…and not the peasantry. However, the evolution of how and when and to what extent the socialist revolution would occur was the crux of disagreement amongst the Russian Marxists. Lenin's role in the evolution of Bolshevik thought eventually pushed Russia towards the October…