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# Animal Farm

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Animal Farm is a book by George Orwell. The story is a modern fable or allegory. The story is about a group of animals who throw out the humans from the farm they live on and run it themselves. What starts out well turns into a brutal tyranny on its own. It was written during World War II and published in 1945. The book was not widely successful until the late 1950s.

Animal Farm is a thinly veiled critique and satire of Soviet totalitarianism. Many events in the book are based on events from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. (For example, the character Snowball, who is expelled from the Farm by Napoleon, is clearly modelled on Trotsky.) Orwell, though a leftist — he was for many years a member of the Independent Labour Party — was a critic of Stalin, and suspicious of Moscow-directed communism after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.

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