Study the timeline of Russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of Animal Farm. A timeline of Russian history from 1890 to 1940. Tsar Nicholas the second's imperial guard massacres protestors in 1905, Lenin leads the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Lenin and Stalin establish the U S S R in 1922, and agriculture is collectivized by the Communist Party in 1928.

"Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!"

Which event most likely influenced the writing of this passage?

the 1905 massacre of people who were protesting their poor living conditions
the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which was inspired by the ideals of Lenin
the development of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Lenin in 1922
the collectivization of agriculture by the Communist Party in Russia in 1928

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion