Russian Revolution
Characters
Propaganda
Author
Governments
100

Ruler of Russia; overthrown in the Russian revolution of 1917

Tsar Nicholas II

100

Shares his dream of revolution; oldest, wisest pig on the farm 

Old Major

100

negative names are used for the 'enemy' so that the audience has an emotional response to them

Name-calling

100

Author's pen-name

George Orwell

100

A Russian ruler has total power and authority over everything; power comes from God

Tsarism

200

Run out of Russia and later killed in Mexico

Leon Trotsky

200

Can convince listeners the opposite of what they believe

Squeeler

200

claiming that an audience should do something because everyone else is doing it

Bandwagon

200

Author's real name

Eric Blair
200

the government exercises firm control over the public and private lives of its citizens and usually follows a particular ideology


Totalitarianism

300

First leader of the Bolshevik party

Nikolai Lenin

300

quiet, strong leader

Snowball

300

Name the technique:

If you do not study hard for the test, you will fail and be expelled from school.

Fear

300

Where author attended school

Eton Academy

300

people own businesses and keep the profits for themselves

Democracy

400

Author of Das Kapital; founder of communism

Karl Marx

400

only concerned with material things

Mollie

400

Name the technique:

Comraderie

400

Author's first novel

Down and Out in Paris and London

400

an ideology advocating the distribution of wealth among all members of a society, achieved through community control over its citizens’ possessions and means of production


Socialism

500

Ruthless leader who took power after Lenin's death

Joseph Stalin

500

spreads stories of Sugarcandy Mountain

Moses

500

Name the technique:

Name-calling

500

Birthplace of author

Bengal, India

500


a form of government control comparable or almost identical to totalitarianism - the government, under the leadership of a dictator, strictly controls the population, often through overt oppression or the elimination of democratic rights and liberties


authoritarianism/Dictatorship

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