Animal Farm and USSR

1. Animal Farm and USSR

3. Single-party dictatorship - Communist Party Pigs

4. Dear Leader Stalin Napoleon

5. State Control of Economy Chickens Forced to Turn Over Eggs “Comrade come to our collective farm!” Collectivization

6. “Five Year Plan; A Blow to Capitalism” Five Year Plans Windmill

7. Alexei Stakhanov = Ideal Worker Boxer = Ideal Worker

8. Gov’t Terror NKVD = Secret Police Dogs = Secret Police

9. Gov’t Terror Purges of Enemies Purges of Enemies

10. Trotsky = #1 Enemy Snowball = #1 Enemy

11. USSR: Show Trials (1930s) • Many top Commies accused of being enemies of the revolution • Accused often “confessed” to the crimes • Executions often followed

12. Zinoviev • Put on trial in 1936 • August 24, 1936:Found “guilty” • August 25, 1936: Executed

13. Bukharin • Arrested 1937 • March 13, 1938: found “guilty” • March 15, 1938: executed

14. Altering of Photos Squealer Changing Commandments

15. Photo #1: Stalin and Yezhov Photo #2: Stalin

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18. DeathTally: at least 20 million • Executed • Starved to death • Die in the gulag

19. Indoctrinating the Youth Young Pioneers and Komsomol Puppies Seized By Dogs

20. Young Pioneers Oath “ I, a Young Pioneer of the Soviet Union, before my comrades do solemnly swear to be true to the precepts of Lenin, to stand firmly for the cause of our Communist Party and for the cause of Communism”

21. Pavlik Morozov • 13 yr. old turned in his father • Heralded as ideal Soviet youth

23. Gov’t Control and Censorship of Media

24. Propaganda Squealer

25. Pravda (“Truth”): Official newspaper of the Communist Party

26. Glavlit: gov’t censoring agency • Goskomizdat : gov’t agency controlling publication of books and other literature

27. Beautiful as birds all in a row Songs fly above the Soviet land. The happy refrain of the cities and fields: "Life's getting better And happier too!" The country is growing and singing as one, It forges everyone's joy with its songs. Look at the sun--the sun's brighter too! "Life's getting better And happier too!" There's room everywhere for our minds and our hands, Wherever you go you'll find you have friends. Old age feels warmer, and youth braver still-- "Life's getting better And happier too!" Know, Voroshilov, we're all standing guard-- We won't give the enemy even a yard. There is a saying for folks old and young: "Life's getting better And happier too!" Let's let the whole gigantic country Shout to Stalin: "Thank you, our man, Live long, prosper, never fall ill!" "Life's getting better And happier too!“ “Life’s Getting Better” Minimus Creating Rev. Art Control Over Artists

28. Socialist Realism • Socialist Realism: style of art designed to glorify communist party and Lenin/Stalin • all artists had to join the Union of Soviet Artists • Stalin: “Artists are the engineers of souls” “Stalin as an organizer of the October Revolution”

29. “An Unforgettable Meeting” – Vasili Efanov

30. “A collective farm feast” - Alesandr Gerasimov, 1937

31. “Return of the Winners”

34. “Industrial Worker and Collective Farm Girl” – Vera Mukhina, 1935

36. Architecture Palace of the Soviets • Proposed building glorifying communism • would have been world’s tallest building • Lenin at the top would have been larger than the Statue of Liberty

39. Lenin Cult Old Major’s skull put on display Lenin’s body put on display