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Animal Farm Background Info Marxism Communist Revolution Soviet Union: Communist State Major Figures GLP English 1 Dr. Newton

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Animal Farm Background InfoMarxismCommunist RevolutionSoviet Union: Communist StateMajor FiguresGLPEnglish 1Dr. NewtonKarl Heinrich Marx (1818-83)The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The Communist Manifesto, Chapter 1

Major Theories: MarxismMajor driving force in history is conflict between social classes based upon economicsBelieved that capitalism (economic system based upon private property ownership) would collapse and be replaced by communism (property held in common by all citizens)Proletariat would replace bourgeoisie and aristocracyFor communism to work, proletariat must develop class consciousnessUntil class consciousness can be developed, Marx believe a small, elite group would lead the people temporarily

Communism

Communism

Proletariat in Soviet UnionLenin- Proletariat dictatorshipStalinRevolution/dictatorship for Proletarians?Proletarian did not have powerManipulated, brainwashedExploited even worse life

Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) Last emperor of RussiaHad economic and military disasters in his time of rulingAlso called as Bloody Nicholas because hundreds killed in Bloody Sunday during his reignWith all of his family was killed after Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution (1917)February Revolution: Led by Marxist revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky, threw out Tsars government and assumed control of Russia, establishing communismCalled themselves SovietsOctober Revolution: defeated anti-communist and Tsar supporter forces, finalized control of Russia The supposedly temporary rulers of the Communist party established the politburo or ruling executive committeeRevolution LeadersBolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led leftist revolt against ineffective provisional government (November, 7)Provisional parliamentary Government Bolshevik, soviet GovernmentIt wasnt until after the Russian Civil War, between radical communist revolutionaries and the monarchists, conservatives, liberals and moderate socialists, that Bolsheviks actually came into powerUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics, the first socialist country based on Marxist theory

Series of Revolution in Russia, 1917Julian Calendar9

Vladimir Lenin1870-1924

Lenin the RevolutionaryGrew up in the relatively privileged circumstances of the bourgeois intelligentsiaDeveloped radical political views at a young age much influenced by his extremist older brother who was hanged for the attempted murder of the Russian czarLenin then spent 17 years in various places in Western Europe, promoting Russian MarxismBecame leader of the Bolshevik (Majority) Party once communists took over government

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Lenin the first USSR DictatorAfter the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin found Russian power in the hands of the Bolsheviks Lenin became the first Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the new proclaimed Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (essentially the first Dictator of the United Soviet Socialist Republics)As leader, worked to establish credibility to the regime and won Russian civil warDied a few year after the Revolution (1924)Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)Lenins partner in the Russian RevolutionViewed as more idealistic and less practical than LeninBecame leader of Menshevik party, which fought and lost to Lenins Bolshevik party for control of communist governmentEventually exiled by Stalin and assassinated in MexicoJoseph Stalin (1878-1953)Inspired by Vladimir Lenin and became a Marxist revolutionaryBolsheviks chief operative, takes over after Lenins deathLaunched command economyFive-Year PlanIron Curtain, forming Eastern BlocControlled the media to spread only his messagesToday linked with Hitler as one of 20th Centurys greatest perpetuators of genocide (estimated 20,000,000 killed under his command by his secret police, the KGB)

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