... either prominent groups or people that were part of the Russian Revolution. To begin with Old Major, the old wise boar that lives on the farm, symbolizes Karl Marx. In the book Old Major describes a perfect animal society and predicts a revolution to create it, but dies before the revolution ... then removes Snowball from power, like Stalin did to Trotsky (Joseph Stalin). Then there is the beginning of work on the windmill on animal farm. One can compare this to the development of a five-year plan by Stalin to industrialize Russia. The later mass executions of people against the ... bele...

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... appear to be nothing more than a "fairy story" at first glance. However, the events in Animal Farm are allegorical to Soviet Russian politics from 1919-1953. Specifically, many aspects of the plot of the novel relate to the policies set forth by Stalin during his dictatorship. For example, common aspects in both the novel and history were the purges, the five-year ... most devout communists were killed or jailed simply because they, "might oppose the party or refuse to do its bidding," (109). This is paralleled in Animal Farm when Napoleon suddenly forces Snowball out of the farm and fo...

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