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An American diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
Diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole arrived for a new job at the United States consulate office in Moscow in September 1917, just two months before the Bolshevik Revolution. In the final year of World War I, as Russians were withdrawing and Americans were joining the war, Poole found himself in the midst of political turmoil in Russia.
Animal Farm: the Graphic Novel
By George Orwell and Odyr
Capitalism: A very short introduction
Use the index to determine if your topic is covered in this eBook.
Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918-1923
“The terrifying thing about the modern dictatorships,” George Orwell re-marked in 1939, “is that they are something entirely unprecedented. Their end cannot be foreseen.”
Class Counts Student Edition
From the series, "Studies in Marxism and Social Theory", this textbook provides students with a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Marxism and Media Studies : Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends
Modern application of Marxist theories.
Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet prison camp system, 1917-1934
A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles.
Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters
Use the index to determine where the term 'Bloody Sunday' can be located in this eBook.
Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914
Tsars and Imposters : Russia's Time of Troubles
The "Time of Troubles" in Russia covers the period from 1584 to 1613.
Understanding Marxism
Use the index to determine if your topic is covered in this eBook.

The following articles are only a sample of what can be found in the databases at Eshleman Library.

Appreciating Animal Farm in the New Millennium.
The writer examines how changing historical conditions have altered the reception of Animal Farm in the decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. He pays particular attention to Robert Halmi's 1999 movie adaptation of the novel and how its technological wonders are transforming young viewers' experience of Orwell's allegory. He notes how the film updates the story and promotes something like an anti-vivisectionist agenda, discusses how readers originally mistakenly categorized the book as a children's novel, and outlines the symbolic levels on which the novel works.
Capitalism
A topic overview article from 2002's Political Theories for Students.
Charisma
From the Encyclopedia of Community.
George Orwell
From the Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Hemophilia
This disease/disorder overview is from The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
Industrial Revolution
This is a topic overview article.
Joseph Stalin
From the Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Personality, Cult of
Revolution
What is a revolution? What are its component parts? This overview from The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences provides clear definitions.
Russian Orthodox Church
This topic overview is from the Encyclopedia of Religion.
Satire
The Reader's Encyclopedia describes Animal Farm as a satirical fable. This article from the Encyclopedia of Identity defines satire through numerous literary and broadcast media examples.
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
Servitude
A paragraph on Serfdom is included in this topic overview on servitude.
Utopia and Dystopia
As this article from the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics states, "...not every writer has his name become a ubiquitous adjective—Orwellian."
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
From the Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Windmills
This article is from Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia of 2008.

Did the Russian Revolution have to happen?
Animal Farm at 70
"Like all great writers, he (Orwell) understood human nature profoundly". This article is by John Rodden and John Rossi.

What is to be done?: The Full Text by Vladimir Lenin
This is from the database, Milestone Documents in World History.
What is to be done?: Document Analysis by Brian Bonhomme
This article provides further reading on this topic and a time line of events.

These movies are available through our "Academic Netflix" database, Kanopy Films.

Battleship Potemkin
This 1925 silent classic of Soviet cinema was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
The End of St. Petersburg
Made by Alexander Dovzhenko for the 10th anniversary commemoration of the 1917 Revolution.
The Hunt For Faberge Eggs
Leon Trotsky
Life of Lenin
Sergei Eisenstein from The Golden Age of World Cinema
A clip that provides background into the Odessa Steps sequence of Eisenstein's 1925 film, "Battleship Potemkin".