Lenin (1870-1924), the leader of the Bolshevik Party that seized control in the 1917 Revolution. When his own generals withdrew their support of him, Nicholas abdicated his throne in the hopes of avoiding an all-out civil war - but the civil war arrived in the form of the Bolshevik Revolution, when Nicholas, like Jones, was removed from his place of rule and then died shortly thereafter. When Russia entered World War I and subsequently lost more men than any country in any previous war, the outraged and desperate people began a series of strikes and mutinies that signaled the end of Tsarist control. As the animals under Jones lead lives of hunger and want, the lives of millions of Russians worsened during Nicholas' reign. During his reign, the Russian people experienced terrible poverty and upheaval, marked by the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1905 when unarmed protesters demanding social reforms were shot down by the army near Nicholas' palace. His rule (1894-1917) was marked by his insistence that he was the uncontestable ruler of the nation. Jones is modeled on Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Russian emperor. Many of the characters and events of Orwell's novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution: In short, Manor Farm is a model of Russia, and old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution. One of Orwell's goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive, totalitarian, and deadly than the one it overthrew.
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