Points to Know
-Karl Marx born on May 5, 1818 in Trier Germany
-Marx said Religion is the Opium of the Masses, and Thesis, Anti-Thesis, Synthesis
-Marx argued with his father
-Vladimir Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 and lived in Simbers
-Lenin was the leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP)
-Lenin started the Iscra newspaper
-The RSDLP seperated into the Mensheviks which wanted to change the current government, and the Bolsheviks which wanted to get rid of the government and start a new one.
-Lenin had a few strokes and died on Jan. 21, 1924 on his 4th stroke
-Leon Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879 and assasinated by Stalin on August 20, 1940
-Trotsky was in charge of Russian foreign afairs and military
-George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903
-Orwell wrote "Down and Out in Paris and London" in 1933
-Orwell enlisted in the Spanish Civil war and was injured
-Orwell died on Jan 21, 1950 (same day as Lenin's death)
-Csarist regime- First Manor Farm
USSR- Animal Farm
Russia- Second Manor Farm
-Joseph Stalin was born on Dec. 21, 1879 and died on March 5, 1953
-Stalin issued a Five-Year Plan in 1928 which attemped to industrialize the country.
-Snowball and Boxer received medals in the Battle of the Cowshed
-In Chapter IX, rations were reduced, except for the pigs and the dogs.
-During the Great Purge, Stalin killed millions of his own people