communist Russia
George Orwell's Animal Farm is largely based on Leon Trotsky and describes how he led the opposition against Joseph Stalin and also includes elements of Vladimir Lenin. It takes place on a farm in England during an undisclosed time. However, the events of the novel are satirical of communist Russia
In the the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia had to abandon
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Poland, Part of Belarus, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Parts of the Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire
The Germans hoped to turn most of these countries into German satellite states.
In addition, Russia had to agree to pay about US$ 6 billion in reparations to Germany.
Douglas argued that slavery was a dying institution that had reached its natural limits and could not thrive where climate and soil were inhospitable. He asserted that the problem of slavery could best be resolved if it were treated as essentially a local problem
