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Animal Farm And The Russian Revolution Of 1917

George Orwell’s book Animal Farm (published in1943) is a children’s story, but when closely examined, it proves to be an allegory to the Russian Revolution. The events in the book are very closely related to the actual events from The Russian Revolution. Also, the animals (main-characters) are historically referring to the Communist leaders such as Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, and others.

The book starts out with Old Major speaking to his fellow animals (representing the people during the Revolution). Old Major represents either V.I. Lenin or Karl Marx. Either way, he is representing the father of Communism. His speech urges the animals (“workers of the world”) to unite against their economic oppressors (humans in the book, Hitler in the Revolution). Old Major dies before he can see the way his followers carried on, as Lenin also died before he was able to witness final results of the Revolution. After Old Major (Lenin) dies, the three pigs Napoleon (Joseph......


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