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Joseph Stalin
Proletariat/Working Class
Animal Farm
Joseph Stalin took control of the USSR after Lenin. He first set up a 5-year plan to develop the USSR's economy through rapid industrialization. Stalin ruled under a command economy, where all economic decisions were made by the government. The USSR's industrial growth was achieved by limiting the production of consumer goods, or things not needed. All people who worked in agriculture put less time into this in order to follow the 5-year plan, resulting in food shortages and widespread famines throughout the USSR.
Russian Revolution Meets Animal Farm
Meets
Napoleon
As Napoleon assumes command of Animal Farm, he changes his mind about the creation of the windmill-- he wants it to be built. The windmill, he says, will take 2 years to build and will require all the animals efforts. However the industrial benefits from the completion of the windmill are good, such as shorter working weeks and easier labor. All decisions were being made by the pigs and nothing was bought or worked at if not necessary to the windmill, the first priority. Even when food shortages set in and starvation was close, work still continued.
Animal Farm Event
Russian Revolution Event
The Bolsheviks
The Pigs
Boxer
Children starving in Russia from the famine caused by the 5-year plan.
"They were always cold, and usually hungry as well...for days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels. Starvation seemed to stare them in the face." -Animal Farm, pg. 74
Stalin shown as if he were "captain" of the USSR, because he controlled all that his citizens did, and his advisors carried out his orders.
"The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks." -Animal Farm, pg. 57
"All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them..." -Animal Farm, pg. 59
A Russian poster showing a worker happily holding a copy of Stalin's 5-year plan.
