Friday, October 20, 2017

How does Animal Farm reflect the Russian revolution?

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characters and the events that transpire throughout the story symbolize and correspond to
historical events associated with the 1917 Russian Revolution and the early years of the Soviet
Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.symbolically represents Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin,
and the school of thought known as Animalism that the pigs develop allegorically represents
communism.represents the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky, andsymbolizes Joseph
Stalin.represents Stalin's propaganda machine, while the nine ferocious dogs symbolize Stalin's
secret police force.represents the proletariat working class, while Mollie represents Russia's
bourgeois middle class. The initial Rebellion allegorically represents the 1917 Russian
Revolution, ending with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, who is symbolically represented by
Mr. Jones in the novella. The Battle of the Cowshed represents the infighting during the Russian
Civil War of 1917-1922, and the Battle of the Windmill represents the Battle of Stalingrad, when
the Soviets defeated the German Army in 1943.

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