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Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice i world. He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one underlying conflict in society. He …

…event in Rus during the period from 1900-1943. An interesting project is to list the events the novel and match them up with the real events which Orwell intended to sati In fact, the story has many, many similarities to the real historical events, of them very detailed. For example, the digging up of Major's skull, and the h destroying their own eggs, both refer to specific events that took place durin rule of Stalin.