Mr Jones - the
previous 'ruler'
was evicted from the
farm
Russia changed
its name to the
USSR - United
Socialist Soviet
Republic
Manor Farm
changed to
Animal Farm
Religion was supposed
to be banned but it
was eventually
tolerated. Karl Marx
called religion "the
opium of the people"
meaning it kept them
docile and
controllable.
Animal's revolution
First leader was
Vladamir Lenin
Annotations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Lenin died in 1924
Old Major
dies before
Animalism is
established
Political
theorist -
created
Leninism - a
form of
Communism
nased on the
writings of Karl
Marx
Old Major invents Animalism
Old Major
Joseph
Stalin
means
'Man of
Steel'
Responsible
for 22
million
deaths
Napoleon Says he kills
because the animals
that committed a crime
deserved to be
punished but he may
have just been killing
for entertainment
Wanted
absolute
power
Distorted
communist
ideal of a
'Worker's
Paradise' to a
brutal
dictatorship
At the end,
Napoleon is
complemented on
the way that he
treats the animals
with disrespect and
only gives them what
they need to survive.
'All animals are equal but some animals are more
equal that others' was the last edited rule of
animal farm which showed that the pigs didn't
even mind if anyone else knew that they were
purposefully giving themselves privileges that the
other animals didn't have and could treat them
like lower beings.
Nepoleon
Annotations:
ytyty
Trotsky
Not allowed
to Lenin's
funeral
A good public speaker
Interested in education
Exiled by Stalin
Was chased away by Nepoleon
Snowball
Stalin's Five Year Plan
Stalin tried to dramatically improve
and restructure industry,
agriculture and infrastucture
Demanding
productivity
targets were set
Rise of the Cult of the
Worker Hero - Praising
those who follow the party
line and try to exceed
targets
'Animal hero first class' and 'Animal
hero second class' is introduced for
animals that have shown
outstanding courage or
commitment
Not meeting targets
was blamed on
treachery or
sabotage
Chickens were forced to give
Napoleon their eggs for the
market against their will
because of the lack of money.
when the chickens tried to voice
their displeasure through a
miniature protest, their rations
were cut off and many starved
to death. The three hens that
led the protest were executed
later in the book
1928-34 Problems of
production arise,
with many
animals dying and
people going
hungry
Stalin controls
the media and
misreports
productivity and
employment
figures
George Bernard Shaw -the
socialist author of Pygmalion
was given a stage-managed
tour of USSR and so
misreported back to the West
Annotations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
Mr Wymper was shown
the animals working
happily, well selected
animals that didn't look
so undernourished and
the feed bins which had
been filled with sand and
covered by the rest of the
grain so create the illation
that they were full and
animal farm was thriving
Squealer tells the
animals that times
are better than
when Jones was the
'ruler' but really they
weren't
The animals are
working hard and
going hungry. Some
die of
undernourishment
The Windmill
Stalin rules by
getting rid of
opposition
Creates the
Ministry of
Persecution
Nepoloeon's dogs
The 'Purges' were
incidents when Stalin
would remove people
who disagreed with
him
In 1934 there was a Party
Congress where over 2000
attendened. In 2 years,
over 1000 of the
participants were dead
Many of the animals
were killed because
they confessed to doing
something that they
probably didn't under
Snowball's Influence.
Napoleon tries to kill
Boxer as he is seen as a
threat but fails.
Napoleon got rid
of Snowball and
tried to get rid of
Boxer (before his
injury) because
they were seen as
a threat to his
power.
George
Orwell
Privately
Educated at
Eton
Rejected privilege
and became a
writer and
journalist
Wrote Road to
Wigan Pier (1937)
about working
families in the
North of England
in poor mining
communities
Went to Spain in 1936 to fight for the
communists against General
Franco - a fascist. but disliked
Stalin's influence on the
communist troops who began
to turn on their own members.
Wrote Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Wrote Animal
Farm - A Fairy
Story as an
allegorical satire
to criticise Stalin's
methods (1944)