1. Orwell’s Animal Farm VS. The Russian Revolution

2. Russian Society
Russia was in extreme poverty while the Tsar (emperor/king) lived in luxury. There was massive unhappiness.

3. Czar Nicholas II
Cruel - sometimes brutal with opponents Sometimes kind - hired students as spies to make $

4. Believed that private ownership of land was bad.
Karl Marx
“Father of Communism”
Believed that private ownership of land was bad.
Believed in “Communal” way of life where everyone shares in prosperity.

5. Government owns everything People own government
Communism
All people equal
Government owns everything
People own government

6. Lenin Followed Marx’s ideas.
Believed that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploited the workers and must therefore be overthrown.
Changed Russia’s name to the USSR

7. One of the leaders of "October Revolution“ along with Lenin and Stalin
Leon Trotsky
One of the leaders of "October Revolution“ along with Lenin and Stalin
Believed in “pure” communism, followed Marx

8. Lenin was the President, Trotsky the Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
Trotsky was a brilliant speaker. With Lenin he succeeded in overthrowing the government in October 1917.
Lenin was the President, Trotsky the Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

9. Commissar
Former name of a head of a government department in the Soviet Union. Like U.S. Secretary of State

10. Wanted to improve life for all in Russia
Trotsky
Wanted to improve life for all in Russia
Chased away by Lenin's KGB (Lenin's secret police)

11. Red Army (the Bolsheviks) led by Trotsky proved successful.
Civil War
1918 –1921 there was civil war.
Foreign countries including Britain, France, Poland and USA were alarmed at the spread of communism.
Red Army (the Bolsheviks) led by Trotsky proved successful.

12. Average speaker, not educated like Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Average speaker, not educated like Trotsky
Didn't exactly follow Marx's ideas
Craved power, willing to kill for it
Used KGB, allowed church, and propagandized

13. Propaganda Department of Stalin’s government
Worked for Stalin to support his image
Lied to convince the people to follow Stalin

14. Stalin takes Control
Stalin secured his power base, and engineered the permanent exile of Trotsky in 1929.

15. Stalin used Trotsky as a “scapegoat” by blaming him for all the problems and difficulties that Russia suffered.

16. Used force to get people to follow Stalin
KGB - Secret Police
Not really police
Used force to get people to follow Stalin
Often killed entire families for disobedience
Totally loyal, part of Lenin's power, even over army

17. communist supporters: Dedicated, but tricked
People believed Stalin because he was "Communist"
Many stayed loyal after it was obvious Stalin a tyrant
Followers were betrayed by Stalin who ignored and killed them

18. Overall details of Russian Revolution
Supposed to fix problems from Czar
Life was even worse long after revolution
Stalin made Czar look like a nice guy

19. From 1929, Stalin began to exterminate them as a class.
Kulaks
Land-owning peasants who did not want their farms to be collectivized after the revolution.
From 1929, Stalin began to exterminate them as a class.

20. New economic plans, called the five-year plans, were introduced.
New economic plans, called the five-year plans, were introduced.
Purpose was to improve industry

21. Germany and Great Britain
22 June, 1941, Germany attacked her ally Russia without warning.
Alliance between Nazism and Communism fell apart
Russia formed an alliance with Britain and the USA.

22. Cold War begins
Tehran conference in 1943 presented the Soviet Union, Britain and America as allies. However, by the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union became an enemy of its allies as the Cold War intensified.

23. Who is Who
Mr. Jones- Czar Nicholas II Old Major- Lenin Snowball- Trotsky Napoleon- Stalin

24. Major’s Skull-Lenin’s Body
Who is Who
Dogs-KGB
Windmill- 5 year plan
Major’s Skull-Lenin’s Body
Battle of the Cowshed- Russian Civil War

25. Who is Who
Frederick- Hitler Animal Executions – Stalin’s Purge Battle of the Windmill – World War II Card Game- Tehran Conference Pilkington- FDR

26. Book to History Translation
Use statements like:
In “AF” ________ ___________________;
(character) (action/statement/feeling)
In history, this stands for
______________ ___________________;
(person/country/etc) (action/statement/feeling)
Example:
In “AF” Old Major dreams about the animal’s freedom; in history this stands for Lenin’s dream of Marx’s Communist government coming true.