Joseph Stalin In Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an emblematic book written by George Orwell in February of 1944. (Wikipedia.com) According to the author, the book works as a reflecting piece on events that led up to the Russian Revolution and on the Stalinist Era of the Soviet Union. The book expresses the peril style of a totalitarian government specifically through the leader named Joseph Stalin. Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union for many years where he transformed the poor society into one made up of a powerful military and industrialization. However, he ruled in violently rigorous ways where millions of his very own citizens were killed. Stalin was first born into poverty where he then got involved in criminal activities at a very young age. This explains why

Snowball and Napoleon were enemies similarly to how Trotsky and Stalin were, as they both despised each other. Snowball was exiled by the “secret police”, which basically means that Napoleon ran Snowball off of the farm. In a similar fashion, Trotsky was also exiled from the USSR and then killed by hired agents of Joseph Stalin. Snowball built a windmill to try and generate electricity to make the farm resemble a more modernistic ambiance. Trotsky wanted to ‘generate’ or spread communism throughout the world. These two actions projected by both Snowball and Trotsky ultimately relate the two

For example, Boxer represented the working class. The working class was preserving, hardworking and loyal to their leader just like Stalin. Without Boxer, the Battle of Cowshed wouldn’t have been a success, similarly to how the Russian Revolution wouldn’t have happened without the working class there to push it. When Boxer was no longer useful he was sent to die which also happened to different people that were a part of the working class in Russia. The character named Mollie represented the upper class. She still wanted the luxuries of sugar and ribbons and didn’t want her life to change. This is the same as the upper class in Russia and how they also wanted to indulge on expensive, materialistic things in life. They didn’t want their lifestyle to change which eventually led to the majority of them moving to other countries to they could keep their lifestyle intact. Mollie eventually left the farm when she got tempted by her previous lifestyle of luxury. Benjamin was against the revolution. He didn’t say anything in fear of being punished much like what would happen to the Russians that opposed the revolution; when he finally decided to warn the other animals when Boxer was being taken away it was unfortunately too late. The sheep were used as the Russian propaganda. They followed Stalin blindly, like a herd of sheep. Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick represent the allied forces,