Animal Farm.The role of Stalinism

The admit that I decided to do was fauna lift. I have read this bear once before and it rattling shows the reference of Stalinism. Napoleon, the head pig and the ruler of the farm is about uniform to the Russian leader during the Russian Revolution, Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is confus adequate to Stalin in the dash that they sh be most character traits such as intelligence and leadership. Although it seemed in the book that Napoleon never displayed in interest in the energy of Animal Farm itself, instead he was worried more round the originator he was able to hold over the farm.Stalin did not hold up off with cause from the start. Joseph Stalin was first appointed to serve on the key Committee of the Bolshevik society. The Bolsheviks were able to seize power over Russia in 1917 and the Soviet Union came about shortly after. Through the next long time Stalin was able to make his bureau up the party rank. He was promoted to world-wide Secretary of the commie Party in 1 922 by the parties first leader, Vladimir Lenin. Having this role allowed him to appoint people that were stanch to him and help him collect information on opposite members of the party.Once Lenin died in 1924, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals with his intelligence and soon become the dictator of the Communist Party. The book Animal Farm was published during the aforementioned(prenominal) time that Stalin was startle to take over Russia. The farm is taken over by the overworked and treat animals. Once they are able to run off the farm proprietor the main pig, Napoleon is able to use his smarts and leadership to depress the different animals to follow his command. Napoleon is best portrayed as Stalin in this book as they both were able to rise up from the bottom by using their cleverness to overcome whatsoever of the obstacles in their way.They both were long leaders and were able to get a lot of followers that had the same beliefs that they did. The author has more than one way that he uses to discern totalitarian power throughout Animal Farm. He first starts off by using Mr. Jones as an example by stating that he runs Manor Farm based on the idea that human power over the animals is the earthy order of things. Once the animals heard Old Major give his tongue on the chance to have a better life without any worldly concern, the animals decide to rebel and overthrow Mr.Jones. As this revolution happens, Napoleon and the other pigs start to run the newly named, Animal Farm with the declaration that they are all fighting for animals against evil humans. The way that I understand the way totalitarian government is used is that one leader is able to do certain things that are able to persuade people to follow in their beliefs. They are able to use such things as power and smarts to get a person to do such things and anyone that does not will normally have those people kil lead.Also those who hold power in totalitarian regimes solo care about one thing while they rule and that is maintaining power by any direction possible. I feel that Orwell was able to describe totalitarian in several ways by using the humans as an example then using the animals. Adolf Hitler and Stalin are the two most known totalitarian leaders in Europe. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and is to blame for World War II and causing the holocaust which led to the suffering of many nations. The two leaders were both very merciless and strict.The circumstances in which the two leaders were able to take power were very similar because they were able to take advantage of the situation they were in and rise to the conk. The method in which they used were a little raciness different, as Stalin built his way up the ladder slowly and had to pull up anybody that seemed to be a threat whereas Hitlers road to power was shorter to where he was able to become the only leader in just 19 months. Overall the roads to power for the two were different.Hitler took powe r by means of election where Stalin had to make his way by outmaneuvering many people. In the book the animal that becomes the main leader is the pig, Napoleon. I feel that even though he is modeled as Stalin his rise to power is mostly similar to that of Hitlers. He is the smartest animal on the farm. By being the smartest he was able to use that ability to get the other animals on his side and view whatever he said which ultimately led to the animals just pass judgment him as leader. What I have learned about the totalitarian mode of government is that once he leader is able to get to the top he ultimately only cares about one thing and that is staying leader. such(prenominal) as Stalin was able to outmaneuver people to get to the top and he made sure he appointed people that would be loyal to him from the start so they would not get in his way in the future. Bibliography Joseph Stalin. History. com. A&ETelevisionNetworks, n. d. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. Animal Farm Themes. LitCharts . com. N. p. , n. d. Web. 8 Dec. 2012 Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York Harcourt, Brace, 1954. Print