About the Book: Animal Farm
Animal Farm is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous
satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events
up to and during Joseph Stalins regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a
member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin,
and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the
Spanish Civil War.
The plot is an allegory in which the pigs in a farm play the role of the
Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm,
setting it up as a commune in