Devilishly simple yet devastatingly effective, it was written by Orwell (born 1903 as Eric Blair) after returning from the Spanish Civil War. He had been horrified by the actions of the Communist Party he had witnessed. Essentially a critique of 1917’s Russian Revolution and the Stalinist era which followed, its antagonists and protagonists are anthropomorphic farm animals; allegorical representations of characters in the Soviet Union such as Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others...so goes the famous quote from George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm. Published on August...
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