Joseph+Stalin

Joseph Stalin (Napoleon)



__Joesph Stalin __
 * Second leader of the Soviet Union
 * Birth Name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
 * "Stalin" derived from combining the Russion word for steel, "Stal" with "Lenin"
 * Played no direct part in the 1917 October Revolution
 * Secretly built up his post to the most powerful position in the party
 * Built up a secret police force, Committee For State Security, also called the KGB
 * Exiled Leon Trotsky

__Napoleon__
 * Led Animal Farm with Snowball after Old Major's death
 * Raised dogs for his bodyguards which only he controlled
 * Chased Snowball out of Animal Farm with his dogs
 * Degraded the animals to the point where life was worse under him than under the humans

__Parallels __
 * __﻿<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Joseph Stalin __

· <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Not a great speaker compared to Leon Trotsky

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">· Cruel, brutal, devious and corrupt

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">· Built up his government position to have power, killed all who opposed

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">· Used KGB, and propaganda and allowed religion || __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Napoleon __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">· Not a great speaker compared to Snowball <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">· Cruel, brutal, selfish, devious and corrupt <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">· Ambition is for power, killed or attacked opponents <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">· Used Dogs, and Squealer to control animals and allowed Moses ||

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Quotes __
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿ __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"...not much of talker[Napoleon], but with a reputation for getting his own way." (p. 11)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"Never mind the milk, Comrades! That will be attended to. The harvest is more important... when they[working animals] came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared." (p. 18)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">...nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws." (p. 37) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|video]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿"...All questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. There would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others...there would be no more debates." (p. 38)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"Boxer[Russian working class], who now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying, "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." (p. 40)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"Without further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in ouch with Snowball ever since his expulsion...The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over eggs...a goose...a sheep...and two other sheep...were slain on the spo. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on." (p. 59)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as "Napoleon." He was referred to in formal style as "our Leader, Comrade Napoleon." (p. 64)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"He[Mr. Pilkton] believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and recieved less food than any animal in the county." (p. 94)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (p. 97) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿[|video]

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿The Russian flag uses a red field to sybolize the blood spilt for freedeom. The hammer and sickle represent the unity of the peasants with the workers


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The animal farm flag represents, "Green fields of England, while the hoof and horn signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise." (p. 21)

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__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Works Cited __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15.5pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bolshevik **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">. (2010). In //Encyclopædia Britannica//. Retrieved December 09, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lamont, G. J. (2009, February 2). // Animal Farm- Comparison of Characters to the Russian Revolution. //Retrieved from []. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Manuel, J. (2001, June 12). // Soviet Union //. Retrieved from [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Orwell, G. 1946. // Animal Farm //. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

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