Joseph+Stalin


 * Joseph Stalin **

//Background//
 * Only child of four to survive (1)
 * Beaten by his alcoholic father (1)
 * Acted rebellious and formed study groups opposed to the Russian Tsarist government (1)
 * Joseph Stalin emerged as the Communist Party leader five years after Vladimir Lenin's death. (1)
 * Stalin used his intelligence and utilized his charismatic personality to overcome four opponents and was known as "new Lenin". (1)

//Relation to Animal Farm//
 * **"In his defeat of rivals...Stalin loudly condemned their call for rapid development of heavy industry and large-scale, collectivized or communal agriculture". (1)**
 * Napoleon acted this way towards Snowball and the windmill. He wanted to knock down the windmill after finding out who Snowball really was.
 * ** "Trotsky, living in exile in Mexico...was assassinated in 1940 on Stalin's orders". (3) **
 * Snowball was living in exile at his new farm because Napoleon kicked him out. This is a parallel because it relates exactly to Trotsky being exiled into Mexico.




 * **"After negotiations with Britain and France failed, he signed a nonaggression treaty with Hitler in 1939". (1)**
 * The nonaggression pact relates to Napoleon's timber deal with Frederick that was used to prevent destruction of the windmill.
 * **"However, on 22 June 1941, Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union". (1)**
 * Hitler's betrayal relates to Animal Farm when Frederick betrayed Napoleon because he wanted to gain timber from Germany.
 * **"In successive 5-year plans, the Soviet Union under Stalin industrialized and urbanized with great speed". (2)**
 * The building of the windmill is the parallel to Stalin's five year plan. The animals worked very hard on the windmill. Napoleon is trying to make his policies look like they are working, but the farm is getting weaker.

// References //

1) Joseph Stalin. (2003). In Judith S. Baughman (Ed). __American Decades.__ Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com

2) Joseph Stalin. (1998). In __Encyclopedia of World Biography.__ Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com

3) Davenport, J. (2010). The Bolshevik Revolution. New York: Chelsea House.