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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. Do Now 5/8.

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Do Now 5/8

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  1. 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. Do Now 5/8

  2. Czar Nicholas II Very cruel, ineffective ruler. Treated workers very poorly.

  3. After WWI, Russia was in an appalling state of poverty. The workers were extremely poor, while the upper classes lived in luxury. Russia under Czar Nicholas II 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 %.

  4. Wrote “Communist Manifesto” in 1848. Believed that a revolution would eventually happen where the working classes would overthrow the ruling classes. Karl Marx

  5. All people are equal and treated equally. Government owns everything. People own the government. All needs of all people met. Communism

  6. Leader or revolution over Czar Nicholas II. Believed in Communist ideal. After his death in 1924, left a power vacuum. Vladimir Lenin

  7. Intellectual, idealist, well educated. Persuasive public speaker. Believed in Marx’s ideas. Leon Trotsky

  8. Not a great speaker. Not as educated as Trotsky. Brutal, cruel, and paranoid. Controlled KGB and used them against Russian people. Joseph Stalin

  9. 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. Stalin vs. Trotsky

  10. Russian secret police. Often killed entire families for disobedience or questioning Stalin. KGB

  11. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Propaganda

  12. 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. Russian Orthodox Church

  13. Boxer and Clover? Mollie? Benjamin? The Cat? The other farmers? Who Else?

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