Angela Hurtado
Guerrero
Humanities
February 25, 2009
Communism: the Possible Impossible
I. Thesis: As shown in Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago communism cannot live up to its political ideals
II. Communism
a. The father of communism: Karl Marx (The Russian revolution, 1917: 17)
i. Das Kapital (9)
ii. Communist manifesto (8)
b. Manifesto
i. Quote from manifesto
ii. Communism ideals
III. The history of the Russian revolution reads like a classic novel about the underprivileged trying to get the upper hand
a. Russia was a breeding ground a working class revolution of some form.
b. Problem is one group having absolute power
IV. In Boris Pasternak’s symbolic autobiography Doctor Zhivago, describes the life of two people with intertwining lives post revolutionary Russia in this time honored tale.
a. The book(once Yuri comes home from the war )
b. Post revolutionary
V. Analysis: why didn’t communism work in Russia
a. Russia was not completely industrialized
b. Manifesto was for industrialized countries
VI. Conclusion
a. Restate thesis