Monday, November 22, 2010

Homework for Monday 22nd November 2010

Please find out the following information for Wednesday:

'Animal Farm' is a fable consciously based on the Russian Revolution. Can you find out about the following list of people and institutions and identify which characters are supposed to represent them AND WHY:

Tsar Nicholas II (The Emperor of Russia)

Karl Marx

The Church

Trotsky

Stalin

The uneducated, unskilled working class (or "proletariat")

'Pravda', the offical Russian Propaganda newspaper after the revolution

The members of the Communist Party

The KGB and/or Stalin's personal bodyguards.