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    Good Bye Lenin Symbolism

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    Within the film, Good Bye, Lenin!, the transition from a Socialist society to a post-Socialist nation can be seen in the film’s utilization of symbolism. Symbolism used within the film can be understood as reflective of the actual lives of German citizens, and from this imagery, the transition to post-Socialism can be analyzed as bittersweet. Good Bye, Lenin! portrayed the conditioning of Socialist citizens by politicians, the citizens’ reliance on governmental support, the westernization of East

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    Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. Born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, I will share information on his life, his beliefs, changes he made to his nation and the effects of these changes.    Lenin was born April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was born into a wealthy middle class family with six other siblings. Growing up, education was a huge part of his childhood. He finished first in his high school class and had a huge love for Latin and Greek

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    The Policies of Lenin and Stalin Essay

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    (such as Pipes), along with the official Soviet historians of the time believed that Stalin was the natural heir of Lenin, opinions have changed with time. As more evidence came out of Stalin’s mass atrocities, the Soviet historians soon began to see Stalin as the betrayer of the revolution as Trotsky had always maintained,

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    Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as simply Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary leader and founder of the Soviet Union and the Marxism–Leninism political ideology. He was born on April 22, 1870 in Ulyanovsk, a very small town in a western-central district in the Russian Empire. He was the third of six children of a Russu-German couple, some of which ended up initiating controversial political stir-ups against the Tsar at the time. Growing up, he and his family, like most Russians

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    Vladimir Lenin and Old Major both are two respected figures among their own kinds. They both have strong beliefs where everyone should be equal in all ways. Their main goals was to eliminate the consumers of their products who does no work and restore equality. In Lenin’s speech and Old Major’s speech in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, they both state their beliefs of Communism and Animalism. In both Lenin and Old Major’s Speech, they believe that there is one cause why workers suffer, the

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    Following WWI, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially formed on December 29th, 1922. Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky all campaigned against each other for political office. In 1923, Stalin became the General Secretary for the Communist Party following the stepping down of Vladimir Lenin and the ousting of Leon Trotsky. Later in the mid 1920s, Stalin discontinued Lenin’s New Economic Policy, and instead introduced a system of collectivization and central city planning

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    incredibly allegorical of the pigs becoming the evil humans that they swore never to become. Overall, the whole story was a metaphor of the Russian Revolution. Much like it occurred in Animal Farm, the visions of a better future dreamed about by Vladimir Lenin do not transpire. The philosophical goals and outcomes of communist societies are drastically incongruent because humankind is avaricious. Once absolute power is given to a person that does not genuinely believe in the purpose, that person often becomes

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    ideologies forcefully even if it means to take away the people’s liberty. Firstly, Lenin meted out harsh punishments on his opposition as a hard approach to gain compliance from Russians. He established a secret police force, Cheka to search for “foreign agents, the former Tsar spies, and all those who objected the peaceful construction of communism”, proving that everything that the people did were under the eyes of Lenin and all those suspected of wanting to counter-revolt and restore the a Tsarist

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    Lenin thought the idea of a revolution, and the planning of it was effortless and simple to carry on. He believed the attack had to be made in three key places, including Petrograd, Moscow and Baltic Fleet. He believed the Petrograd soldiers were able to obtain the Winter Palace, the General Staff Building and other important buildings adding that this would cause Alexander Kerensky to surrender. Notwithstanding, the Bolshevik Central Committee did not accept his ideas, leading to an ultimatum sent

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    Lenin and Stalin were similar in a few ways, Lenin’s ultimate goal for the Soviet Union and the Communist party was World Revolution. World revolution was led by the working class called the proletariat. With that Stalin has some of the similar ideas but went down a different road to establish his idea and goal. When it comes to Stalinism, there are essential features that are unique. Stalin used some ideas of Marxism and Leninism along with his own spin in it. One big difference that makes Stalin

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