Animal Farm An Allegory of the Russian Revolution
Dec 30, 2015
Animal Farm
An Allegory of the Russian Revolution
ALLEGORY:
• A work (book, play, movie, etc.) in which the characters and events represent other things, as well as a deeper symbolic (often moral or political) meaning
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
Economy
• The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
(How stuff and work gets made/happens, moved around, and used up)
Communism—a Utopia
• A utopia (Greek for “no place”)=an ideal—a place where everything is perfect and everyone is happy
• Communism—an idea of a utopia based on the principal of equality and sharing—everybody works, everybody shares
• --”From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Russian Peasants--feudalism
St. Petersburg, 1917
Tsar Nicholas II & Family
Vladimir Lenin—the Bolsheviks
Socialism
• A system of government where the state controls the means of production (the ways stuff gets made) and distribution (who gets the stuff and how)
Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin