Animal Farm & Russian Revolution Web.Quest Research Links

Animal Farm & Russian Revolution Web.Quest Research Links

You will need to use ALL of the following websites to find the answers to the questions on page 2.

Use ONLY these sites (no Google, no Wikipedia, etc.).

DIRECTIONS:

1. Read the question.

2. Choose one of the corresponding links.

3. Read carefully until you find the answer to the question. It is possible that an answer may come from

multiple sites; the more you read, the better answer you will find.

4. Copy the question and the entire paragraph which contains the answer.

5. Paste the paragraph to a Word document. Paste website URL beneath each answer.

6. Save to your U-drive.

7. Every time you paste a new answer, click SAVE.

Basic Definitions Discovery Video George Orwell and Animal Farm:

Nicholas II: George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm Themes

Nicholas II

Karl Marx:

Karl Marx

Leon Trotsky:

Trotsky

Trotsky Joseph Stalin:

Stalin

Part I. George Orwell and Animal Farm

1. What is George Orwell’s real name?

2. When was Animal Farm first published?

3. Name at least three different themes found in Animal Farm.

Part II. Nicholas II

4. What is a tsar?

5. Who was Nicholas II?

6. How did he feel about democracy?

7. What were working conditions like for Russians with Nicholas II as their leader?

8. What was Bloody Sunday?

9. Was Nicholas II an effective or poor leader?

Part III. Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, and Communism

10. Who was Karl Marx?

11. What did Karl Marx say about religion?

12. Karl Marx had ten points. Name three.

13. Leon Trotsky wanted to improve life in Russia. Who did he support? He used his pen to

oppose what leader?

14. Where did Trotsky spend much of his adult life?

15. Who ordered the assassination of Trotsky?

16. Explain the basic principles of communism.

17. Explain the basic principles of socialism.

Part IV. Joseph Stalin

18. Who was Joseph Stalin?

19. What title was he given in 1922?

20. What role did Stalin eventually assume?

21. What happened in the 1930s during The Great Terror or The Great Purge?

22. What is propaganda?

23. What are some of the forms of propaganda Stalin used to influence the public?

24. Stalin used a secret police force. For what purpose were these officers used?

Part V. Final Thoughts

25. Use what you have learned and describe each of these men in your own words. This answer

should be at least one paragraph and written in complete sentences.