DO NOW 5/8 Aim: What historical events are represented by the events of Animal Farm? Get out your notebook. What do you know about the Soviet Union, or USSR? Even if you’re not sure, write what you think. As little or as much as you know is ok, as long as you write something.
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DO NOW 5/8 Aim: What historical events are
represented by the events of Animal Farm?
Get out your notebook. What do you know about the Soviet
Union, or USSR? Even if you’re not sure, write what you think. As little or as much as you know is ok, as long as you write something.
CZAR NICHOLAS II
Very cruel, ineffective ruler. Treated workers very poorly.
RUSSIA UNDER CZAR NICHOLAS II
After WWI, Russia was in an appalling state of poverty. The workers were extremely poor, while the upper classes lived in luxury.
12.5%
1.5%
4%
82%
Classes
Upper ClassMiddle ClassWorking ClassPeasants
Upper classes: Royalty, nobility, higher clergy: 12.5%. Middle classes: Merchants, bureaucrats, professionals: 1.5%. Working classes: Factory workers, artisans, soldiers, sailors: 4%. Peasants: Landed and landless farmers: 82 %.
KARL MARX
Wrote “Communist Manifesto” in 1848.
Believed that a revolution would eventually happen where the working classes would overthrow the ruling classes.
COMMUNISM
All people are equal and treated equally.
Government owns everything. People own the government. All needs of all people met.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Leader or revolution over Czar Nicholas II.
Believed in Communist ideal.
After his death in 1924, left a power vacuum.
LEON TROTSKY
Intellectual, idealist, well educated.
Persuasive public speaker.
Believed in Marx’s ideas.
JOSEPH STALIN Not a great
speaker. Not as educated as Trotsky.
Brutal, cruel, and paranoid.
Controlled KGB and used them against Russian people.
STALIN VS. TROTSKY
Both worked very closely with Lenin. Disagreed about the future of Russia
after Lenin’s death. Stalin used brutal tactics, and forced
Trotsky into exile in Mexico.
KGB
Russian secret police.
Often killed entire families for disobedience or questioning Stalin.
PROPAGANDA
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Marx called religion “The opiate of the masses.”
ROC was allied with Csar Nicholas II.
Stalin allowed some aspects because it stopped violent revolutions with a promise of a reward in the afterlife.
WHO ELSE?
Boxer and Clover? Mollie? Benjamin? The Cat? The other farmers?
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