Leon Trotsky

Animal Farm: A Satire on The Soviet Union Animal Farm is a classic novel written by George Orwell in 1944. Orwell Served with the Indian Imperial Police Force for six years in Burma, but resigned in 1927 when he discovered he felt like an oppressor. He came up with a theory that states “the oppressed are always right and the oppressors are always wrong.” He seems to demonstrate this theory throughout Animal Farm as the oppressors always do wrong by the oppressed. In many of Orwell's writings,…

His death brought upon the rise of the pigs because they were the most cleaver animals on the farm. After rebelling, the pigs made laws that needed to be followed. “Beasts of England” would have to be sung every day, and on the anniversary of “Battle at the Cowshed” one shot would be fired from Mr. Jones’ gun. Later in the story, Napoleon and Squealer start to take advantage of some of the animals. The intellectually inferior were easy to gain as followers, like Boxer and the sheep.…

Industrialization of Soviet Russia represents the rise and fall of the soviet union. The Pigs represents the leaders of the soviet union. Napoleon represents stalin, one of the major leaders of the soviet union. Then there was Snowball, he represents Leon trotsky and he challenges Stalin and gets kicked out the country of Russia. Squealer represents one of the largest newspapers in Russia called “Nprabta” a newspaper that would spread lies to the people of Russia. Old Major was…

speaker while Napoleon is not. Snowball’s goal is to make life truly better for those on the farm but when he starts to realizes Napoleon’s plan for complete control he is forced off Animal Farm and is never seen again (Rodden). Snowball parallels Leon Trotsky in that he also wanted to genuinely improve the life of the people. Unfortunately, he is ran off just as Snowball was by the KGB (Lamont). Napoleon is the new leader of Animal Farm and has essentially brainwashed all of the animals on the…

Animal Farm by George Orwell, is a satirical novella analysing the Russian political climate of 1945. With England’s increasing contact with the Soviet Union, during the rise of Joseph Stalin and brewing of the Cold War, Orwell sought to vent his frustrations through his art. Orwell, being a prescient writer (Kennedy 2017), was able to contextualise the events of, and immortalise, the Russian Revolution, whilst alluding to the result of the Communist agenda that took power during his lifetime.…

of Russia, who was overthrown during Bolshevik revolution. Old Major can be compared with Lenin, the force behind the initial Russian revolution. Napoleon, the protagonist/villain can be seen as Stalin, who to amass the power of the Soviet, sent Leon Trotsky (Snowball) to exile. Boxer can be compared with The Stakhanovite movement, whose ideologies lay in over-working themselves for the greater prosperity of the nation. The author beautifully fuses in animalism and symbolism into the context of…

Stalin, who was directly inspired by Lenin and Marx. In the same way Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union, Napoleon was the dictator of Animal Farm. Snowball, who was power hungry and enriched in his corrupt ideology, represents Leon Trotsky, a Soviet politician who was exiled by Joseph Stalin (History.com Staff, 2009). Although these men envisioned a perfect society, their greed quickly led to their decline (Rani,…

Animal Farm is an allegorical (a metaphor based on a character, place, or event) novel by George Orwell. The book’s events relate to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The book starts of with old Major, an old boar and an allegory of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, calling a meeting about a dream he had on Manor Farm. He tells the animals that they must create a rebellion against humans, he called them “enemies,” and then he recalls his dream. The dream was about a song he used to hear amongst the…

in 1905 which left hundreds wounded in the streets. Winds of change were high, and the political surge of communism left many workers feeling the need for revolution. The leaders of these communists were bright thinkers such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Pavel Dybenko. To revolutionaries, obedience is key to political unrest. In order to gain anything in the revolution, one must hound obedience away from traditional…

dream of Animalism. Old Major is based on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Marx came up with the idea of communism which was brought forth by Lenin. Like Lenin, Old major died before the revolution. The revolution in Animal Farm was led by Snowball, Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon, Joseph Stalin. After the revolution the pigs assumed power and to legitimize themselves they made the Battle of Bullshead a holiday and would have the animals sing “Beasts of England.” The Russian comparison was making the…