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Compare And Contrast Animal Farm And Stalin

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George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a story that represents the rise of Stalin, as well as his many threats. In Animal Farm, we see Animal Farm turn from a free place where animals held their own, to a communist workplace over Napoleon’s rule, much like Joseph Stalin did during his rule. Stalin caused fear so nobody would try to take over, much like Napoleon. Stalin and Napoleon both did horrible things, causing fear and terror, and sometimes even did the same things. Stalin was a terrible human being. He would prove time and time again that he should not be in charge, but the most well known bit of him misusing his powers would be the “Show Trials”. During the “Show Trials”, Stalin would arrest many, and make them confess to outrageous crimes, some even without trial, just like Napoleon. Napoleon would force innocent animals to come up to a stage and confess to crimes, then let the dogs slaughter them. This quote from The Stalin Purges and Show Trials will provide extra evidence that he would make people confess to horrible things, “Often based on forced confessions, the trials made a mockery of the idea of due process of law.”(1). Although Stalin did not order death on all people who confessed like Napoleon did, Stalin did order death to …show more content…

Stalin achieved this by confiscating grain crops from peasants. In chapter 7 of Animal Farm, we see Napoleon force the hens to give him their eggs or starve. As The Stalin Purges and Show Trials said in their text, “Massive food and consumer shortages plagued the Soviet people. To increase trade exports, Stalin ordered the government to confiscate all grain crops from Soviet peasants. As a result, 5 million died of starvation.”(1) It is clearly stated that Stalin starved out Soviet peasants to get what he wanted, just as Napoleon starved out the hens to get what he wanted, but sometimes Napoleon and Stalin would do much

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Similar to the Tsars before him, Stalin caused the death of anyone who opposed his way of ruling, especially the Kulaks. He violated the rights of the people by launching an extensive campaign on deporting ethnic groups that opposed his leadership. Stalin’s years of “great terror” through much unneeded purges caused him to more and more act as a “Red Tsar”. The only difference was Stalin was ruling under Marxist ideologies with communism being the end result as opposed to adherence to the Russian Orthodox Church. However, just like Stalin, Alexander II was very similar in that the secret police was at the centre of dealing with outside issues towards his power.

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This intentional starvation by Stalin killed around 7.5 million Ukrainians. As the evidence shows, the mass famine caused the starvation, the starvation caused the cannibalistic tendencies, the cannibalistic tendencies caused many deaths and the Communists, also caused most of the dissolutions. Likewise, Soviet propaganda revoked the problems of the Ukraine for years. This led to believe Stalin’s psychotic willingness to kill people and get away with it. The propaganda spread into the western hemisphere, consisting of false facts that the famine was completely normal and not outlined.

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Natasha Sazonova and Lana Babij (2015), state that Stalin enforced a program called “agricultural collectivization.” Through this Stalin “forced [Ukrainian] farmer to give up their private land, equipment and livestock, and join state owned, factory-like

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Like Napoleon, Stalin would get rid of anyone who would rebel against his rules or disagree with what he was doing... According to the article "Stalin Banishes Trotsky" by the Editors of History.com, “He ordered someone to kill Trotsky.” This evidence

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In terms of agricultural output the government reported that it rose from 48% in 1928 to 70% in the final year of the five year plan (1932). This deep development in a short few years came at the cost of many citizens due to the creating of a rural famine from a sweeping government. The Soviet government challenged and later removed many general freedoms awarded to farmers under prior governments in favour of a strict communal farming style based entirely on reaching high state quotas. Although changes implemented by the new socialist government caused for rural famine and decrease of living quality they allowed for the Soviet Union to expand rapidly. Without the ruthless tactics and strict policies implemented by Stalin none of these changes would have been able to occur in the timely fashion they

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Stalin's dealed with the politician opposition by causing the purges. "During the purges the soviet police officers was killing political prisoners". The official death total was determined 1,548,366 and they were also a 1000 execution's that went on every day. The purges are almost the same as animal farm because the purges were politically incorrect because Stalin and napoleon was the same by thinking they had to rule over everything and by killing who ever that does not obey their rules and also by thinking they are the ones who have no rules since they rule over thing there allowed to say and do whatever they please and get away with it.

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In rural Russia, the ‘ancient farming technique’1 of strip farming was still used, alongside backwards technologies such as ‘wooden ploughs’ and with ‘few animals and tools’ despite the fact that ‘four out of every five people in Russia were peasants’2, which meant that as a result ‘famine and starvation were common’3 Under Stalin’s rule, the system of collectivisation was introduced. As collectivisation meant peasants did not work individually, but together in a kolkhoz, more advanced technologies such as tractors4 were used. However, as an example of Stalinist propaganda, this source is inclined to show collective farms in a positive light, and not show the negative aspects, such as the widespread famine present prior to its eradication. Despite this, the source still has value in showing what an idealised collective farm would be like, with details such as good quality clothing for all, and equality between the sexes, and this source can be corroborated, as tractors were present for some5 which could be utilised for the benefit of many, they were still uncommon, with as little as 4% with electricity by 1937, and even fewer with running water6. However, even this limited development was better for Russians than under the Tsarist regime, where it was negligible.

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He created many plans to have the government take over everything. One of the first changes that Stalin made was to create government run farms. Many farmers were not willing to comply with this and so they were executed (History.com Staff). If the farmers did decide they would work at the collective farms, some of the farmers would slaughter all the animals on their own farm and destroy any machines they had in protest. On the collective farms, the farmers had to grow crops that the government told them to.

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Stalin saw the famine as a success because if anyone opposed the new policies were killed or sent to the gulag which resulting in everyone seeing that the collective farm was there to stay. This famine represents a rejection of liberalism because it was used as a weapon to try and get rid of Ukrainian nationalism, this is a violation against the civil rights and liberties of the

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Stalin would also try to be superior to Trotsky by contradicting Trotsky. As one can see stalin is a very smart and clever man, but can have vile intent. Stalin was able to become a draconian totalitarian leader because he controlled the economy, implemented fear, and had much social influence. Initially, Josef Stalin was able to gain total control of the country through the economy. Stalin’s five year plans elevated the industrialization of the USSR and

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Stalin rose to power in Soviet Russia after developing his Socialism in One Country theory, which was more appealing among the communists than Trotsky’s permanent revolution. After Stalin became dictator of Soviet Russia, he killed anyone who he thought would be a threat to his power, including Trotsky. However, there was one group that Stalin was especially concerned about: the peasants. He believed that they held a legitimate political threat, so he had to figure out ways to remove them immediately. First, Stalin forced them to give up all of their land; then, he sent them off the collectivization farms, where they would work for Stalin.

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Validity: This source is relevant to my research question because it shows that Stalin’s rule in agriculture did not benefit the Soviet Union socially which forms part of my argument. People were “left to die” in order to allow the Five-Year Plan to continue and become successful economically. Usefulness: The source is useful because it provides a view of someone who is not from the Soviet Union and has not been raised based on values and principles of the country. It shows that not all people working in government were in favour of Stalin’s agricultural rule.

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he ensured the schools have to teach the Leninist and Marxist ideas to ensure complete loyalty have been injected to people (students).And also under education system Authors and artists were commanded to portray good image of the Stalin and strict punishment was enforced to the ant-Stalin. The cult of Stalin, that is, people of Russia were forced to worship him as leader thus helping him to keep his power intact .Furthermore, statutes and paintings of him were spread over schools, factories and government departments. He also used his position as Secretary-general to appoint his supporters to valuable posts to ensure his loyalty is adhered to, thus by controlling central Party machine was able to enhance great follow up on the members of the party to vote on his initiatives. (mccollum,

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The average loaf of bread cost 170 rubles. Lenin also starved the Volga region. Some even resorted to cannibalism. Riots were forged and crimes grew drastically.

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Stalin, the leader of the Communist army in Russia and the most powerful man in the past uses violence to the ones that go against him. He has a style of dictatorship where many people suffer. Gunshots going across, people dying out, outcry, burst in tears with bruises all over the body, killing in harsh condition all occurs during Russian Revolution. The historical background of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is also the Russian Revolution. In the book, Napoleon uses dictatorship to order other animals, uses accuration, and give harsh punishment who block his way.

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