Similarities Between Russian Revolution And Animal Farm

As we can see animal farm and the Russian revolution is an allegory and that means that they basically the same thing but they are told in different ways. Orwell used farm characters to replaces some of the animals in the Russian revolution even the events that took place are changed up but they are similar to one another. Here are a few characters that are paired together then we will get into the events. Old Major is parallel with Vladimir Lenin, leader of the November 1917 revolution. Farmer Jones is parallel with czar Nicholas II. Napoleon represents the new revolutionary order, parallel with Joseph Stalin and Snowball represents defending and spreading the revolution. He is parallel with Leon Trotsky, leader of the red army. In the 1980s
Chasing away farmer johns is the ridding the farm of all human control this represents the end of the “old major” and is parallel with the removal and execution of Nicholas II and his family. Building the windmill is when they are creating economic self-sufficiency for the farm. This is parallel with Stalin’s 5 years plan (NEP). The party adopted his plan in 1928. It was called for rapid industrialization of the economy, with an emphasis on heavy industry. It was setting goals that were unrealistic. With a 20% increase in overall industrial development and a 330% expansion in heavy industry alone, but Stalin insisted on unrealistic production targets and serious problems began to arise. His only really focused only on one thing with forced collectivization it helped to achieve Stain’s goal of rapid industrialization, but the human costs were incalculable. Another event that took place was selling the wood the wood from animal farm was sold to Fredrick who paid in counterfort money this is parallel with Nazi- soviet