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SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NINETEEN EIGHT FOUR AND STALIN’S RUSSIA
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SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NINETEEN EIGHT FOUR AND STALIN’S RUSSIA |
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SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NINETEEN EIGHT FOUR AND STALIN’S RUSSIA
Throughout time there has always been people who try to take power over others and control them. Certain government’s take their power and use it in many ways against their people. Both Stalin’s Party and the Party members from nineteen eight four by George Orwell use their power in ways that go against their own people. The novel is similar to Stalin’s Russia because of various factors. The way they organized their department which controls what part of the country. Also the way they used violence and propaganda to lure people into there control.
Much like nineteen eight four it had similarities to Stalin’s Russia. One thing that was similar was the way they treated the people. In 1984 Big Brother would make the middle class party work hard. Then were given little food but given lots of gin to forget their days and worries. They were given targets which they had to meet every day at work and if they didn’t they were in lots of trouble. Sometimes the managers would lie just to make them see that they did it but then it would be all mixed up and they wouldn’t be enough for what every reason they needed. Then they later find out that you are lying then they would be in trouble.(Orwell)
Joseph Stalin did something similar to this he called it the Five Year Plan. When he became leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin in 1924 and began to change agriculture and industry. This is what Joseph Stalin said in his speech to the Fourth Plenum of Industrial Managers on February 4, 1931 "We are one hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must take good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crash us!" (Tucker p.98). He believed he can do this by creating a command economy and forcing farmers and industry to modernize. There were 25 million farmers but many produced only for their families. More successful peasants were called kulaks. Stalin wanted to liquidate them has a class. He thought that peasants saw the benefits of modern agriculture and they would join the state run collective farms. They refused , so Stalin burned their crops and let them rot in the fields. Villages that resisted voluntary were surrounded by the army and men forced to surrender. More then five million households had been eliminated and many were sent
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