Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Objectives

• Learn the paralles between the russian revolution and Animal Farm
  
• Write a character description of all the Animals and relate them to a person, organisation or entitiy in the Russian Revolution 

Czar Nicholas II

• A poor leader at best
  
• Cruel - sometimes brutal with opponents
  

Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin

Lenin adopted Marx’s ideas. He believed that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploited the workers and must therefore be overthrown.

Leon Trotsky

One of the leaders of "October Revolution“ along with Lenin and Stalin

Believed in “pure” communism, followed Marx

The Commissar for Foreign Affairs

Chased away by KGB (secret police)

Joseph Stalin

• Average speaker, not educated like Trotsky 
• Didn't exactly follow Marx's ideas 
• Stalin continually opposed Trotsky 

What parallels do you see between the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm?

Extra information

if you'd like extra infromtaion on the Russian Revolution to study for the text, you can find it in iTunesU Lesson 1, Week 3

Activity

ITunesU lesson 1, Week 3

Characters in Animal Farm

• Relate the characters in the novel to the Russian Revolution