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Russian revolution
Allegory in animal farm!Slide2
Excerpt from the prologue
“Orwell seemed more candid than usual about
Animal Farm
when he wrote the preface for its Ukrainian edition, and it reads very much like an anti-Soviet tract. The communist manhunts in Spain, which he had narrowly escaped, coincided with the Moscow purges, he wrote, and ‘taught me how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries.’
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Excerpt from the prologue
“After seeing innocent people imprisoned because they were suspected of unorthodoxy, he was appalled on returning to England to find ‘numerous sensible and well-informed observers believing the most fantastic accounts of conspiracy, treachery, and sabotage’ alleged in the Moscow purge trials. Slide4
Excerpt from the prologue
“’And so I understood, more clearly than ever, the negative influence of the Soviet myth upon the western socialist movement… it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was. Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that the U.S.S.R. was progressing toward anything that one could truly socialism.’ To the contrary, it was becoming ‘a
heirarchical
society, in which the rulers have no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class.’”Slide5
allegory
A story with 2 meanings: a surface level meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Surface level meaning: A story of animals rebelling against the farmer.
Symbolic meaning: The Russian Revolution and the resulting government.Slide6
Basic timeline
February 24
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There are riots over scarcity of food
March 2 – Nicholas II abdicates his throne
October 24/25 – Bolsheviks take over the government
1924 – Lenin dies
Trotsky and Stalin compete to replace Lenin
Stalin succeedsSlide7
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