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Animal Farm

Animal Farm. English 12. Totalitarianism. System of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the. Socialism.

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Animal Farm

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  1. Animal Farm English 12

  2. Totalitarianism • System of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the

  3. Socialism • Political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community

  4. Communism • Political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities.

  5. Democracy • System of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

  6. Bolshevik • Became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. • The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. • Founded the Soviet Union. • The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin. • Organization of professional revolutionaries • Considered themselves as the vanguard of the revolutionary working class of Russia.

  7. Russian Revolution • The Russian Revolution is the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917 • Revolution destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. • In the first revolution of February 1917 the Czar was deposed and replaced by a Provisional government. • In the second revolution of October the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government.

  8. Revolution • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=FD68CA5F-68D8-42E8-9DF6-9141D910C2B0&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

  9. Karl Marx • 1818-1883 • German Philosopher • Historian • Communist • Revolutionary • Ideas are credited as the foundation of modern Communism

  10. Marx • Believed that capitalism would produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. • Believed socialism will replace capitalism and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism.

  11. Marx • His ideas began to influence the workers' movements shortly after his death. • This influence gained added importance with the Russian Revolution. • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=F326BE71-5178-4698-AD73-2113FE3D7B4C&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

  12. Vladimir Lenin • 1870-1924 • Bolshevik leader of the 1917 October Revolution • First Head of the State of the Soviet Union • His contribution to Political Science, Leninism

  13. Lenin • Closely followed the works of Marx • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=5F99750C-DA99-4D4D-84D1-98618CCD18F2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=7E7AF3B8-A8CF-42D0-BE84-400DB61F4E62&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

  14. Leon Trotsky • 1879-1940 • Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist • One of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, second only to Lenin. • Early days of the Soviet Union, he served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War.

  15. Trotsky • Among the first members of the Politburo. • the principal policymaking committee of a Communist Party. • Lead a failed struggle against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. • Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union. • Trotsky opposed Stalin's peace agreements with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. • Trotsky continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union • Assassinated in by a Soviet agent. • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=67DCB862-7C6F-4590-B8A9-12CD4B80DEA3&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

  16. Joseph Stalin • 1878-1953 • General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee until his death in 1953. • In the years following Lenin’s death he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.

  17. Stalin • During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge, a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery. • He extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. • Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. • In the years following, millions of ethnic minorities were also deported.

  18. Stalin • In 1939, the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland,and the Baltic's. • After Germany violated the pact in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Allies to play a large role in the Axis defeat, at the cost of the largest death toll for any country in the war. • Stalin installed communist governments in most of Eastern Europe. • This launched the long period of antagonism known as the Cold War. • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=AB1AB0AA-9780-461F-8CC4-6854549CAABE&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US • http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=F737DA47-6E54-4639-A463-457B193845B1&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

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