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?