This is what happened in Russia in the early 1900’s. This is what happened in Animal Farm by George Orwell. John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton said it best, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In Animal Farm, the animals, representing Russia’s people, were upset with the management of the farm. They were eating only enough to stay alive, so they finally had a breakthrough and Rebelled against the humans on the farm, representing the Royal Family in Russia. When the pigs came into power they had seven commandments by which all of the animals need to live.
After Old Major died, Napoleon changed the rules so they reflected well on him, and gave him the freedom to do what he liked, whereas he left the other animals with no food, and no time to rest and continued to make them work while he sat back and did nothing. Comparison In George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the majority of the animals were used to represent some of the main characters in the Russian Revolution. For example I am using Joseph Stalin. I think that Joseph Stalin was very similar to Napoleon. There are many similarities such as the actions they put forward and their characteristics.
When And Why Did The Second World War Turn Against Hitler And His Allies? In September 1939 the world descended into the most violent conflict in its history. This was as a result of many years of poverty stress and anger at other countries (from Germany). Hitler took this downfall of the country to become the prime minister, as he often said that if he became the leader of Germany he would sort the country of all its problems. Hitler then took away the “Power of the People” by replacing parliament with a self proclaimed dictatorship, which most Germans welcomed.
Are people born good or bad? Michael Caballero Although Hobbes was right about nature of people that is evil he was wrong about government having absolute power, in the other hand Locke was right about power corrupts the people but wrong about people being born with a clean slate. For example Adolf Hitler, he was the worst because he killed a lot of innocent Jews. Hobbes thought that the world was evil because he lived during a war and saw stuff that nobody would want to see. Ayatollah Khomeini one of the 20th century's most ruthless leaders.
Often times literature has a deeper meaning and it can also represent events that have happened in the past. Although George Orwells novella “Animal Farm” is known for being an allegory to the Russian Revolution and how power can be used for good or absolute evil, it is also similar to how things are in North Korea.“Animal Farm” is about a group of animals who rebel against the farmer, Mr. Jones, and create their own type of government called Animalism. As the story progresses the new leader of the farm becomes more like a dictator, but all the other animals don’t seem to realize what is actually going on. They believe that they are living in a utopia, but it’s more of a dystopia. It is very similar to the way things are in North Korea because they also rebelled against their government and appointed a new leader.
“A dictator is a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has complete unrestricted control of a government without hereditary succession.” Examples of such rulers are Adolph Hitler, King Leopold and Chairman Mao of China. Today I will be telling you about one such dictator named Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin obtained power of communist Russia after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Acting as General Secretary of the communist party he started his 5 year plan of the industrialisation of the Soviet Union. He did not let anyone stand in the way of his political career and even went as far as assassinating his opponents.
Each little area had their leader and all of the leaders were always fighting to take over someone else's kingdom. Don't quote me on this, but I believe the Hapsburgs (sp? ), a royal family from which Marie Antoinette was descended, started trying to unify all these little principalities into one whole empire, which they more or less succeeded in accomplishing temporarily. Then the Kaiser was assassinated and this was the start of WWI. What is now Germany, but was once much larger, meant everyone in all these at one time unified areas began fighting for their independence and everyone in the whole world became involved in it.
Lenin had also ended the war with Germany by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. However, this was a humiliating treaty for Russia as the Germans had been extremely harsh and the treaty took land, industries and people from Russia. After the Reds’ victory in the civil war, Lenin set about creating the world’s first communist state. He introduced war communism whereby the people saw the rapid nationalization of all industries as well as the requisitioning of all surplus grain from the peasants. Even though this solved all the immediate needs of the communist state, the majority of the peasants were unhappy about the new policies and rebelled against the Bolsheviks.
WHY WAS THERE AN UPRISING IN HUNGARY DURING 1956? (12 MARKS) There was an uprising in Hungary during 1956 due to several factors, starting with the appointment of the Hungarian dictator Martyas Rakoski. He ruled from 1949 – 1956 and described himself as ‘Stalin’s best pupil’, whereas the public nicknamed him ‘the bald butcher’. He was known for developing tactics that were oppressive and brutal, resulting in 2,000 deaths of Hungarian people and 387,000 being imprisoned. Some of the features from his regime included the banning of all other Non-Communist parties, Cominform beginning a reign of terror having executed many political leaders and their supporters and having Russian officials control the government.
“Nazi Germany gave us a big ungainly word, yet one that we still use: totalitarianism. We may even throw it around too loosely, applying it to a lot of foreign leaders whom we don’t like. But heres what it meant in the context of Nazi Germany: the destruction of all persons and groups that would challenge Hitler’s supremacy. This destruction singled out not only the Jews but also most intellectuals, the Communists and the Socialists, the labour unions, the Catholic Church, parts of the Lutheran ministry and even elements of the Nazi movement itself. Nazism was a revolution, and revolutions tend to devour their own.” The words of Robert Smith Thompson (2003, 141) have just described the crisis that was facing the Weimar Republic in the years 1933-1939.