Background and Context

• Vladimir Lenin led a revolution against the Russian government because?


  He wanted more power for the working class
• After Lenin died who took power and Became a dictator?


  Stalin
• Why did George Orwell write animal farm? 


  to show that a revolution leader could be corrupted by power in any country
• Stalin was a dictator how did he stay in control?


  Fear, people executed without warning

  Links to Napoleon later in the novel
• Jones represents who?


  Tsar
• Old Major represents who’s revolutionary ideas?


  Lenin‘s ideas
• what did old major say that links to of Lenin’s ideas ?


  “Revolution will come”
• what is capitalism?


  Capitalism is an economic system based off business – it’s selling things to make a profit
• What is communism?


  an economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally owned instead of being owned by individuals
• the “sudden uprising” that took johns by surprise is an allegory for what event in Russia?


  The people rioting against Tsar making him give up the thrown
• Snowball represents Trotsky
• After the revolution there was a civil war between the Bolsheviks and people still loyal to Tsar. Who helped to win this war


  Trotsky- good leader , organised a powerful army
• The civil war after the revolution is an allegory for what battle in animal farm?


  The battle of the cow shed
• What quote said by snowball links him to Trotsky‘s ruthless?


  He tells boxer “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one”
• In Russia who was the power struggle between?

  Trotsky and Starlin (snowball and napoleon)
• What was Trotsky’s ultimate downfall to Stalin?


  His arrogance
• What was the fate of Trotsky's legacy after his expulsion?

  He became a 'non-person' with his name removed from history books.
• What did Stalin do to alter his image with Lenin?

  He created a 'cult of personality' and altered photographs.
• What was the purpose of the propaganda spread by Stalin?

  To portray himself as a great leader and ban criticism.
• What happened to old communists accused of plotting with Trotsky?

  They were arrested and charged in show trials
• How were the accused forced to confess to betraying Stalin?

  They were forced by torture or threats
• What was the role of the NKVD during Stalin's regime?

  They were the new secret police
• What does Napoleon do to the animals he suspects of plotting against him?

  He orders them to be killed
• How were Russian peasants treated under Stalin's regime?

  They were forced to collectivise
• Who resisted collectivisation among the Russian peasants?

  The kulaks
• What extreme measures did some peasants take in protest against collectivisation?

  Many burned their own crops and killed livestock
• What was the consequence of the peasants' protests in the 1930s?

  It led to a famine