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Animal Farm is a satire

Animal Farm is a satire . – type of writing that ridicules or criticizes the faults of individuals or groups. Animal Farm is also an allegory . a story with more than one level of meaning Levels of meaning Animal Story/ Fable History of Communism under Lenin and Stalin History of Russia

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Animal Farm is a satire

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  1. Animal Farm is a satire • – type of writing that ridicules or criticizes the faults of individuals or groups.

  2. Animal Farm is also an allegory • a story with more than one level of meaning Levels of meaning • Animal Story/ Fable • History of Communism under Lenin and Stalin • History of Russia • Account of the way revolutions are made and corrupted

  3. Communism Background Marx and his ideas • Man, not God is the highest being

  4. Religion is the opium of the masses • Problem!! – This takes away human dignity • Leads to having no morality, people only look out for #1 • How does this sound like Hope for the Flowers?

  5. So Marx believed that . . . • History is a series of conflicts between the classes and that . . . Communism, a classless society is the answer

  6. The -isms • Capitalism – individuals and businesses carry on production and exchange of goods through a network of prices and markets • Can be used of exploiting the week, corruption , looking out for #1

  7. Communism – a classless society, everyone is equal, man is made by labor, makes what he needs to survive • Common People = Government Ownership • No private profit, no rewards for doing well, working hard • Collective, not individual process ** Stalin was a communist . . . supposedly . . .

  8. Socialism – Public/state ownership, nationalized means of production ** Lenin was a socialist, believed that in society workers should be free to receive the full product of their labor

  9. Russian Revolution • Lenin (Old Major) – dreamed of a better life • Russian aristocracy was not taking care of the people • Bolshevik Revolution – draw out Czar Nicholas as a figure head – this did not work

  10. Lenin – Wanted to implement Marx Communist Manifesto convinced the Bolshevik party to form Communist party • no classes, everyone equal, share in profit • proletariat – unskilled worker

  11. Problems * Communism won’t work with uneducated people – they had to be educated to rule • Plan for education, the party would make decisions for common man, until they were educated • Marx’s plan would only work in an industrialized nation, they had to industrialize

  12. Leaders of the Revolution Trotsky – had the same beliefs, supported Lenin, away at time of death  Stalin – also shared beliefs, convinced Trotsky he didn’t need to come back for funeral • stabs him in the back (figuratively), pushes his own agenda to become leader • Trotsky was sent into exile, slandered Stalin on the radio • Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination

  13. Stalin’s Control • Stalin pushed the common man to get industrialized • invited (dissatisfied) Americans to Russia to help with the process • He forced them to stay when the country closed

  14. Stalin • Made students go to state schools • turned into a totalitarian government • KGB – secret service • purged those who did not agree with him • officers, whole villages Stalin is responsible for killing more people than Hitler

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