Animal Farm is a book about a farm where the animals take over the farm and kick the owner out. They try to govern themselves and make laws, but they have some currupt leaders (three pigs). When this book was published Stalinist Russia was a target. This author used an animal farm to symbolize Stalin's rule over Russia.
I will give you some examples of the great similarity of the book and the communism and Salin's reign. For example, one of the things that were similar was that when Stalin became leader he made plans that would take a very long time and a lot of hard work. Same as the pigs. Stalin made workers work extremely hard and long hours for very little pay. So did the pigs exept the animals got payed with food. Boxer was a horse in the book that alxays was the hardes woker and work about 10 times harder then the others and was treated as a hero. Alexei Stakhanov was a real worker who basically the exact same thing happened to. Those are just some of many examples.
George Orwell, the author did an amazing job with the symbolism between this event and the book. I could barely tell any differences. I would recomend this book for anyone looking for something very interesting to read.
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Sam, I loved your comparisons to Stalin and the examples helped clarify. I actually did not know that the book was a comparison, I have yet to read it.
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