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**ANIMAL FARM PROJECT IMPORTANT PEOPLE**

 * [[image:karl.jpg width="90" height="99"]]Karl Marx**- (1818-1883) He ranks among the most important thinkers of the 1800's. His writings helped form a foundation for the political and economic system known as Communism. In 1843, Marx moved to Paris. There, Marx became friends with the German journalist Friedrich Engels. With Engels, he wrote his best-known work,the //Communist Manifesto// (1848).Marx believed that the only way to ensure a happy, harmonious society was to give the control to the workers.


 * [[image:nicolas.jpg width="111" height="124"]]Czar Nicolas II**- (1868-1918) The czar (king;monarch) of Russia (1894-1917). He was the son of Alexander III.Took his place as Monarch of Russia soon, after his father died on October,20 1894.Husband of Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt the father of Olga,Tatiana,Maria,Anastasia and Alexis (who had hemophelia).Nicolas died when taking a train to Dvisnk after abdictating his throne peacefully.Nicolas was killed by communist ordered from Moscow, shot and thrown into a disused mine.Him and his family stayed dead their until the collapsing of the Soviet Union.


 * [[image:joseph.jpg width="111" height="149"]] Josef Stalin-** (1879-1953) He was the Soviet Statesman who also, was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union and the leader of world communist for atleats 30 years.Thanks to him the Soviet Union enlarged their territory, won a war, and became the 2nd most important industrial country in the world. In 1913 he adopted the name Stalin "man of steel".The Soviet Union under Stalin's rule industralized and urbanized with great speed.He was also elected a Tpillipsi committe member of the Russia Social Democratic Workers Party.


 * [[image:leon_trortsky.jpg width="108" height="118"]]Leon Trotsky-** (1879-1940)