LEon trotsky
Born: November 08, 1879 in Elisavetgrad, Russia
Died: August 21, 1940 in Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Revolutionary
Leon Trotsky was a principal leader in the founding of the Soviet Union. He played an important role in the October Revolution. He organized the Red Army during the ensuing civil war.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein near Elisavetgrad which later became Kirovograd. He derived almost completely from a Russian Jewish family, which they lived in the province of Kherson. He lived with his father for eight years, after living with his father, who was a prosperous Jewish farmer. and his mother, Anna, his parents sent him to school, named Odessa. When Trotsky moved to Nikolayev in 1896 for his final year of schooling, his life as a revolutionary began to take shape. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9). At the age of 17, he became acquainted with Marxism. He began to skip school in order to talk with political exiles, which then led him to read illegal pamphlets and books. He made friends with young men like himself who were thinking, reading, and debating revolutionary ideas. In 1897, he helped found the South Russian Workers’ Union, he was then arrested for his activities with that Union in January 1898.
After the two years in prison, Trotsky was brought to trial and was exiled to Siberia. While transferring to Siberia, he married Alexandra Lvovna, who was a co-revolutionary who also had been sentenced to four years in Siberia. In 1902, he only served 2 years instead of the 4 years he was sentenced to, he escaped. He was smuggled out of town on a horse-drawn cart, then giving him forged documents. His name was Leon Trotsky with his new iD. He did not know that Trotsky had been the name of the head jailer of the Odessa prison. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9)
Trotsky moved to London, where he met and collaborated with V.I. Lenin on the Russian Social-Democrats’ revolutionary newspaper, Iskra. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9) In 1902, he met his second wife, Natalia Ivanovna whom he married 1 year later. Trotsky decided to return to Russia. He spent most of 1905 writing numerous articles for pamphlets, newspapers to help inspire, encourage and mold the protest and uprising that challenged the Tsar’s power during the 1905 Russian Revolution. By the late 1905, he had become a leader of the revolution. Although the revolution that year had failed, he himself later called it a “dress rehearsal” for the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Quickly after Trotsky became a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution. He had officially joined the Bolshevik Party in August and allied himself with Lenin. With a good success of the Revolution, Lenin became the leader of the Soviet government and Trotsky became second.
In January 1928, Trotsky was exiled. He was banished from the entire Soviet Union. Over the next seven years, he moved around a lot places, until he finally arrived in Mexico in 1936. On May 24, 1940, by Soviet agents, they machine-gunned Trotsky’s house, Trotsky and his family survived the attack. On August 20th, 1940, Ramon Mercader stabbed Trotsky’s skull with an ice pick, he later died due to the injury at the age of 60. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9)
Died: August 21, 1940 in Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Revolutionary
Leon Trotsky was a principal leader in the founding of the Soviet Union. He played an important role in the October Revolution. He organized the Red Army during the ensuing civil war.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein near Elisavetgrad which later became Kirovograd. He derived almost completely from a Russian Jewish family, which they lived in the province of Kherson. He lived with his father for eight years, after living with his father, who was a prosperous Jewish farmer. and his mother, Anna, his parents sent him to school, named Odessa. When Trotsky moved to Nikolayev in 1896 for his final year of schooling, his life as a revolutionary began to take shape. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9). At the age of 17, he became acquainted with Marxism. He began to skip school in order to talk with political exiles, which then led him to read illegal pamphlets and books. He made friends with young men like himself who were thinking, reading, and debating revolutionary ideas. In 1897, he helped found the South Russian Workers’ Union, he was then arrested for his activities with that Union in January 1898.
After the two years in prison, Trotsky was brought to trial and was exiled to Siberia. While transferring to Siberia, he married Alexandra Lvovna, who was a co-revolutionary who also had been sentenced to four years in Siberia. In 1902, he only served 2 years instead of the 4 years he was sentenced to, he escaped. He was smuggled out of town on a horse-drawn cart, then giving him forged documents. His name was Leon Trotsky with his new iD. He did not know that Trotsky had been the name of the head jailer of the Odessa prison. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9)
Trotsky moved to London, where he met and collaborated with V.I. Lenin on the Russian Social-Democrats’ revolutionary newspaper, Iskra. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9) In 1902, he met his second wife, Natalia Ivanovna whom he married 1 year later. Trotsky decided to return to Russia. He spent most of 1905 writing numerous articles for pamphlets, newspapers to help inspire, encourage and mold the protest and uprising that challenged the Tsar’s power during the 1905 Russian Revolution. By the late 1905, he had become a leader of the revolution. Although the revolution that year had failed, he himself later called it a “dress rehearsal” for the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Quickly after Trotsky became a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution. He had officially joined the Bolshevik Party in August and allied himself with Lenin. With a good success of the Revolution, Lenin became the leader of the Soviet government and Trotsky became second.
In January 1928, Trotsky was exiled. He was banished from the entire Soviet Union. Over the next seven years, he moved around a lot places, until he finally arrived in Mexico in 1936. On May 24, 1940, by Soviet agents, they machine-gunned Trotsky’s house, Trotsky and his family survived the attack. On August 20th, 1940, Ramon Mercader stabbed Trotsky’s skull with an ice pick, he later died due to the injury at the age of 60. (About.com 20th Century History 4.9)
Snowball
Snowball is first introduced after the pigs take charge of the Old Major’s message on the farm. We learn that “Snow was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character” (2.2) (Shmoop 4.9). It was hard to know what the narrator means by “depth of character” . As he could be talking about anything like moral character, then it becomes clearer throughout the story, that Snowball is no more lacking than Napoleon. (Shmoop 4.9). Snowball is the animal who was most attuned to Old Major’s thinking, and he devotes himself to bettering the animals in intellectual, moral, and physical ways. He manages to teach the animals literacy, so the animals could have a better grasp of the principles involving Animalism by reading the Seven Commandments he paints on the farm’s wall. He was the “thinker” of the rebellion, Snowball shows a great understanding of battle strategies, we learn this during the Battle of the Cowshed. While his various committees may fail, the fact that he attempts to form them reveals the degree to which he wants to make the Animals’ lives better. His plan for the construction of the Windmill was somewhat noble, since it would make the animals work harder. His exile at the hands of Napoleon, however, suggest that force suggest - not good intentions - governs the farm. (CliffsNotes).
Comparison between Trotsky and snowball
In the novel, Trotsky’s character is portrayed as Snowball. Like Trotsky, Snowball was one of the leaders of the revolution against Mr.Jones, as Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, who grew to become a very influential and powerful revolutioner. As the revolution is finished, Snowball becomes the hero of the Farm, and devotes his entire work to it connecting to Trotsky who was in charge of the army command in the Russian Civil War. One of the biggest parallels between Trotsky and Snowball, is that both were displaced by their rivals - Stalin in the USSR and Napoleon on the Farm. They both are exiled, but in Snowball's case, Napoleon starts to connive and makes Snowball’s reputation bad, as in the Trotsky's side Stalin tells everyone in the USSR the notion that Trotsky was bad for the Revolution. Theoretically, the biggest different between Trotsky and Stalin was that Trotsky was in favor of attempting to spread the Communist Revolution to the rest of the world, while Stalin developed the idea of having the communism in one country. In Animal Farm, we see this paralleled when they are debating over the Windmill. The Windmill could be shown as a symbol of Snowball’s dreams for the future of Animal Farm. Whether or not it was practical, Napoleon does not agree and decides to exile Snowball of the Farm. (Shmoop). It is believe that Orwell, chose to portray Trotsky as another pig in the novel, as both of them wanted to become leaders of Russia/Animal Farm.