What if Animal Farm was JUST LIKE REAL LIFE?

For my last history requirement, I thought it would be fun to take a break from East Asian history and take a class simply titled “Stalin.” According to my professor, the life of Stalin is best understood if you accept that he was a good socialist before all else. And if we, as students are to truly understand Stalin, we need to understand socialism. And so we exhausted the first month of classes on the study of the Communist Manifesto and other writings that may have shaped the Young Stalin’s concept of socialism.

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