"Bolshevik means member of a wing of the Russian social democratic workers party." "It also means one of the majority in Russian" (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). There were 21 members and 10 candidate members of the Central Committee during the revolution in 1917. "On November 6 and 7, 1917 leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government" (History.com Staff). The government had been assembled by a group of leaders from Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin instead …show more content…
In Animal Farm, the pigs were just normal farm animals until under Snowball and Napoleon's rule they battled for the cowshed and came out on top. The pigs changed the farm into communism until Napoleon took control and became a ruler with total power. The Bolsheviks made Russia a communist country but once Stalin took control he changed it to a dictatorship. Therefore both communities ended up with dictatorship rule. The Bolsheviks and the pigs could not do anything to take the power of Stalin and Napoleon, in fear of being killed both communities followed the commands of their leaders. "Napoleon, with dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech"