Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. The novel, though, was actually meant by Orwell to be a satire of Russia during its revolutionary period from the Czar Nicholas ... II to Trotsky and Stalin. "Animal Farm," wrote Orwell, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousne...

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... published by George Orwell in 1949, the exact year the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It was written to warn the world of the dangers of totalitarian regimes. In 1939, he traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War, where he witnessed firsthand the atrocities committed by fascist politics. The rise to power of dictators such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet inspired Orwell's ... mounting hatred towards totalitarian and political authority. He in turn devoted his energy to writing such novels as Animal Farm as well as 1984. The basis of thi...

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