Animal Farm Vs. The Russian Revolution

The characters in Animal Farm favor the main personalities of the Russian Revolution. Mr. Jones is a reflection of Czar Nicholas II, who lost control of his reign by rapid industrialization. Workers had a low standard of living and rebelled against poor working conditions (Perry 656). Mr. Jones loses his farm in a similar way; the animals are tired of

1. What goes up on 2 legs is an enemy.

6. No animal shall kill any other animal

The seven commandments of Animalism

their low standard of living. Old Major is the first animal to talk of rebellion and “Animalism.” The old wise pig spreads his ideas throughout the animals, and they listen to him in belief. The people of the revolution looked up to Karl Marx in the same way. In the beginning, the strikers called themselves Marxist revolutionaries. In the 1890’s, they found a new leader of their revolt. Vladimir Lenin was determined to overthrow the czarist regime and the capitalist system (Perry 657). The character Snowball refers to Lenin. Like Lenin, Snowball wants the leadership of the farm to be a communist society, but he is in constant battle against a dictatorship. Leon Trotsky seized government buildings in Petrograd, and he arrested the members of the Provisional Government (Perry 661). Similar to Trotsky, Napoleon, the h

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