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.
When Napoleon is changing the rules for animal farm
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'
Napoleon "Natural leader"
Responsible
for 22
million
deaths
When Napoleon is killing lots of animals
Wanted
absolute
power
Wanted all of animal farm
Distorted
communist
ideal of a
'Worker's
Paradise' to a
brutal
dictatorship
Napoleon
Trotsky
Not allowed
to Lenin's
funeral
Snowball was not allowed to any of the meetings on the farm
A good public speaker
Snowball was a good speaker
Interested in education
Snowball teaches people to read
Exiled by Stalin
When Napoleon exiled Snowball from the farm
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
Not meeting targets
was blamed on
treachery or
sabotage
Napoleon blamed Snowball for the windmill being destroyed
When Napoleon was saying people were targets because they done something wrong
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
Windmill
Stalin rules by
getting rid of
opposition
Creates the
Ministry of
Persecution
Napoleon gets dogs to kill or attack anyone who does something bad
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
Napoleon kills a lot of animals
Napoleon is fighting Pilkington
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)