Study the timeline of Russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of Animal Farm. On Bloody Sunday,
Tsar Nicholas Il's
imperial guard killed
unarmed protestors.
1905
Vladimir Lenin led the
Bolshevik Revolution,
and the tsar was
forced from power.
1917
Lenin and Joseph Stalin
established the USSR.
1922
The collectivization of
agriculture began.
1928
1890
1940
World War I began.
Tsar Nicholas Il was crowned.
1894
1914
Six to eight millio
people died in the
Soviet famine.
1932-1933
The tsar was assassinated,
and Lenin removed Russia
from WWI and formed the
Communist Party
1918
Lenin died, and Stalin
came to power.
1924
"But is this simply part of the order of Nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent
life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good,
it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep—and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.” Which event in Russian history does the sentiment of this passage most point to?

From the glass menagerie: "suspended in the mist over berchtesgaden, caught in the folds of chamberlain's umbrella." who was chamberlain? a.paul chamberlain: tom's father b.neville chamberlain: prime minister of great britain. c.pedro chamberlain: amanda's drunkard husband d.cornelius chamberlain: gentleman caller for laura

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Hurry 20 mins left! study the timeline of russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of animal farm. "is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? only get rid of man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. almost overnight we could become rich and free. what then must we do? why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! that is my message to you, comrades: rebellion! " which event most likely influenced the writing of this passage? the 1905 massacre of people who were protesting their poor living conditions the 1917 bolshevik revolution, which was inspired by the ideals of lenin the development of the union of soviet socialist republics by lenin in 1922 the collectivization of agriculture by the communist party in russia in 1928