Russian Revolution vs Animal Farm Tsar Nicholas II

Russian Revolution vs Animal Farm

Tsar Nicholas II & Tsarina Alexandra Russian Revolution Animal Farm • Ruler of Russia • Failed to solve Russia’s basic political, economic, and social problems • Tsar was forced to abdicate throne • Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones • Ran farm poorly • Forced off the farm by the animals

V. I. Lenin Russian Rev Animal Farm • Leader of the Bolsheviks who took over in the absence of the tsar • Sent in exile to Switzerland • Lenin adopted Marxist ideas to fit Russian conditions • Germans helped him escape and get back to Russia • War Communism/NEP • • Old Major Inspiration for the rebellion Killed early in the revolution Established the laws of Animalism

Stalin Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Took power after the death of Lenin • Used fear tactics to gain power • Wanted to focus on building communism at home • Napoleon • Introduced the idea of the windmill • His secret police exiled Snowball

Trotsky Russian Rev. Animal Farm • A Marxist revolutionary under Lenin • After Lenin’s death, Trotsky and Stalin competed for governmental control • Urged a world wide revolution against capitalism • Snowball • Disagreed with Napoleon on the future of how the farm should be run • Was exiled off the farm by Stalin’s secret police dogs

Secret Police Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Enforced War Communist policies • Protected Communist leaders • Jessie and Bluebell’s puppies • They were taken at a young age and trained in communist views

March Revolution Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Tsar failed to deal with issues at home while he was trying to raise moral on the war lines against Germany • Russians overthrew the Tsar • Ended Tsar rule of Russia • When the animals took the grain and then ran farmer Jones off the farm

Other Countries Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Germany helped Stalin back into Russia • Other countries that supported the anti-communist side (Whites) • Germany (Adolf Hitler) traded with Russian leaders • Other farmers in the area that came back to help Jones get his farm back • Mr. Frederick- unfairly traded with the pigs of the farm

Communism Russian Rev. Animal Farm • a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state • Collective farms • All business was under the government • Animalism • Pigs eating the apples and milk while the other animals starved • Sleeping in beds • Dressing like humans • Trading with other farmers • Drinking alcohol

Civil War- Red Army vs White Army Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Three year war between the “Red”- Communist (Bolsheviks) and the “Whites”counterrevolutionary (tsarist imperial officers, Mensheviks, Democrats) • Allies helped the Whites in hope to help overthrow the Communist • Group of farmers that returned to the Jones’ farm to attempt to retake it • Animals chased them back off the farm ▫ Hoof and Horn flag was developed after that

Five Year Plans Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output • Stalin’s plans set high production goals • To meet goals, managers produced more but cheap products • Plan to build the windmill • Continued the plan even after the windmill was destroyed

Collective Farms Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Farmers kept their homes and personal property, but the land was owned by government ▫ Including everything grown on it • Some protested by burning their crops and slaughtering their animals • Food shortages remained a problem • Idea that everybody worked on the windmill to build to it so everybody would have to work less • Still had to work hard everyday and it did not increase their food

Great Purge Russian Rev. Animal Farm • Stalin feared the rise of opposing parties so he had many leaders killed or sent to Gulag • Over 4 million people were purged out of Russia ▫ Some were experts in industry, economics, and engineering, and some of the Soviet Union’s most talented writers and thinkers • When the hens refused to sell their eggs, they were considered rebels hand killed for their actions against animalism