Animal Farm
Animal Farm, written by George Orwell in 1945, is a dystopic allegorical novel reflecting the communist state in post 1917 revolution in the Soviet Union. The book sees the depiction of Joseph Stalin as the pig Napolean, Leon Trotsky as Snowball, and the civilians as other farm animals. The book concludes with the thirst for power, as well as the concept of pseudo-communism. Orwell believes that The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
The book is especially noted for the challenge towards free speech, as during the publication, the Great Britain and Soviet Union has a close tie, however Orwell challenges this. It is a classic novel as it was basically one of the main allegories which allowed people to see communism in all its terrible glory. It showed the people of Britain the truth about the Russian Revolution in a simple form, using only a farm, some animals and some humans.
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