Joseph Stalin Animal Farm

Soviet England, 1928-1932

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle,” said an important man in Russian history. This man was a dictator named Joseph Stalin, and he played a huge role in the Russian Revolution. Starting in the year 1928 and ending in 1932, Stalin carried out a five-year industrial plan, which was intended to promote communism but ultimately did the opposite. In Animal Farm, a novella about Joseph Stalin’s rule over Russia, George Orwell effectively portrays Stalin and his five-year plan during the revolution through a pig named Napoleon and the two-year building process of a windmill in.

On December 18, 1879, Joseph Stalin, previously known as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was born in a Russian peasant village called

This is shown when he announces that animals will only work voluntarily on Sundays, “but any animal that absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” (Orwell 59). During the revolution, Stalin did not tolerate misbehavior of any sort, and Napoleon is a good parallel to him because he will never take no for an answer, no matter what the question, or order, is. In Animal Farm, Napoleon responds swiftly and ruthlessly to any act of rebellion, as did Stalin during the Russian Revolution. When the hens on Animal Farm receive news that they must surrender their eggs, they were infuriated and tried to foil Napoleons plan by flying “up to the rafters [to] lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces” (Orwell 76). This is one of the first acts of rebellion that the animals have shown since they drove their old human owner, Mr. Jones, off the farm. For the hens, doing such a thing takes a lot of courage, especially after witnessing the consequences of such transgressions. Napoleon, on the other hand, is not impressed, and he immediately “order[s] the hen’s rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death” (Orwell 76). Napoleon has altered the farm to the point where no animal can even speak up for him or herself without fear of death or expulsion. People’s ways of thinking also changed during the Russian Revolution. During the five-year plan, “peasants were required to turn over their tools, horses, oxen, cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens…Rather than hand it over, they destroyed tools and slaughtered livestock. The government responded by shooting peasants, moving large numbers of people away from their homes, and deliberately creating a famine that caused between five and ten million deaths” (Stalin Five-Year Plan). Within these two excerpts, it is evident that Napoleon and his plan in Animal