Ch. 1: Old Major’s speech to the animals; inspiring revolution; life without man.

Ch. 1: Old Major’s speech to the animals; inspiring

revolution; life without man

Karl Marx“Communist Manifesto”

1848

Vladimir Lenin

“What is to be Done,” 1902

Ch. 2: Animals revolt, overthrow Mr. Jones and his men; Mr. Jones leaves farm,

giving up control

Russian

Revolution

February 1917

Czar Nicholas II

Rasputin

Ch. 3: pigs have assumed leadership roles on the farm; Snowball and Napoleon are at

the forefront of the new Animal Farm society

Bolshevik

Revolution

October 1917

Leon Joseph

Trotsky Stalin

Soviet

Flag

Animal Farm

Flag

Soviet Flag Symbolism:•RED: blood, communism; Russian word for red has ties to words meaning “the best” and “beautiful”•HAMMER: the workers•SICKLE: the peasants•STAR: unity; five classes of communist society: workers, peasants, intellectuals, youths and soldiers ________________________________

Animal Farm Flag Symbolism:•GREEN: fields of England•HORN and HOOF: the future republic of the animals that would arise after the overthrow of the human race

Ch. 4: Battle of the Cowshed; Mr. Jones and some men try to take back the farm; Snowball leads

the animals

Russian

Civil War

1918-1921

Chapter 5:

Snowball is chased away from Animal

Farm and Napoleon assumes “complete” power.The windmill

will be built!

Leon Trotsky

Exiled

1929

New Economic

Policy

Chapter 6: Trade will be conducted with neighboring farms; the hens should feel honored to be of such a help to the windmill

cause. Mr. Whymper and rule changes!

Collective

Farming

1928-1929

Stalin’s

Purges

Mid 1930’s