ANIMAL FARM Hitler Stalin Mao Zedong Kim Jongil

ANIMAL FARM

• Hitler

• Stalin

• Mao Zedong

• Kim Jong-il

• Tito

• Milosevic

• Napoleon

What do they have in common? • leaders, heads of state, some of them might be referred to as dictators (a ruler who has sole and absolute power) • Orwell criticises totalitarianism – a political system where the state, usually under the control of a single political person or faction, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

Totalitarianism • Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority. It is opposed to individualism and democracy. • Ideology is a system of values propagated by institutional means to direct most if not all aspects of public and private life. • Totalitarianism is an extreme version of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control.

Russian Revolution 1917 • the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. • the Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917. In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government led by Lenin.

Important characters in the Russian Revolution and after • Vladimir Lenin – leader of the Bolsheviks, his ideas were based on the ideology of Karl Marx. • Leon Trotsky – the second most important person of the Bolshevik party famous for his speeches and revolutionary character. • Joseph Stalin - assumed the leading role in Soviet politics after Lenin's death in 1924, and became leader of the Soviet Union. (the Great Purge, communist governments in most countries in Eastern Europe after WWII).