Karl Marx• Created the Basis

of Communism

• Called for revolution in the

name of EQUALITY!

• Classless society

Czar Nicholas II

• Totalitarian Government/

Tyrant

• Family was executed after the Revolution

Rasputin

•Trusted advisor to the Royal Family

Vladimir Lenin• Led the Russian

Revolution• Voted the Chairman of

the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

on 30 December 1922• Leader of

Communist Russian until his death in 1924

Leon Trotsky• Fought for

leadership in the1920’s against Stalin

• Forced to leave Russia

• Brutally murdered in 1940

Joseph Stalin• Dictator of

Communist Russia

• Tyrant• Used KGB (Secret

Police) to crush opposition.

• Ruled Communist Russia from 1925, until his death in 1953

George Orwell• Author of Animal

Farm• Believed in the ideals

of the communist manifesto and an utopian society- equality!