Animal Farm

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Animal Farm (originally Animal Farm: A Fairy Story) is a satirical, allegorical, dystopian novella and beast fable by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It follows the mistreated, anthropomorphized farm animals of Manor Farm as they rebel against their human master and endeavor to create a utopian society. However, the rebellion is hijacked and betrayed, and under the dictatorship of the pigs, the farm ends up in a dystopian state nearly identical to what it had been before. According to Orwell, Animal Farm was inspired by events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, a period when Russia lived under the Marxist–Leninist ideology of Joseph Stalin. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Barcelona May Day conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces during the Spanish Civil War. In...

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