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…Civil War and Russian Revolution; as a result, many famous individuals and classes of people were represented as characters in his novel. Orwell lived during a time when Russia was becoming a very dominant country with its new form of government controlled…

…to the eventful destruction of a society" (Unger). The characters in Animal Farm are compared to the individuals and groups engaged in the Russian Revolution. "But the seeds for Animal Farm are present in earlier works, not only in the metaphors likening men…

…on the proletariat, not the peasant class. One of the people influenced by Plekanhov was man going by the name Nikolai Lenin. His revolutionary ardor was strong. Lenin went on to form a group called the Bolsheviks that would go on to create a revolution(Communism, 63-70…

…interested in Lenin's position. A power struggle between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky began (Soviet, xi). Stalin became the Bolshevik party general secretary in 1922. In 1925 Stalin offered a more attractive solution to the Russian people than Trotsky did…

…the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and ruled the Soviet Union until his death in 1924 (Remnick). One of Lenin's chief advisors was a man by the name of Trotsky. After Lenin's death, a power struggle ensued between Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. When Stalin won…

…. But success also accounts for continuing prosperity, and how the success is achieved. While Stalin's plans may have been more successful than Lenin's Russia or the Tsar's Russia, the mass amounts of death and the eventual fall of Russia, causes me to say…

…, and Hitler became dictator of Germany. Stalin was also a very important to world history because he created the Communist Red Machine; the world came to know as Russia, a powerful country that would last long beyond his death. Stalin was the successor of Lenin…

…on it. This showed the strong partnership between peasants and industrial workers. The Russian propaganda machine worked impeccably for over two hundred million people, and one sixth of the planet. Lenin, the new leader, imposed the communist concepts by force within…

…of the major cities. Lenin believed strongly in these morals and used them as a guide to his goal of revolution. The party continued to protest against the current government in Russia and over time the political, social and economic discontent and the famous…

…improvements to the economic position of the peasants. However, war communism took away a lot of freedoms that Russians had gained as a result of the October Revolution. Lenin justified this policy by claiming that these measures were necessary in order to defeat…