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Match the following Animal Farm characters with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
Match the following Animal Farm characters with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
Boxer = Proletariat Old Major = Karl Marx Napoleon = Czar Nicholas II Snowball = Leon Trotsky
Match the following events in Animal Farm with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
Match the following events in Animal Farm with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
The slaughtering of animals who confessed = Purges and executions under Stalin's regime The rebellion = Russian Revolution of 1917 The windmill = Five Year Plan The Hen Rebellion = Kronstadt Rebellion
Match the following Animal Farm characters with their actions or characteristics:
Match the following Animal Farm characters with their actions or characteristics:
Squealer = Propaganda and manipulation Moses the Raven = Religious influence and escapism Mr. Jones = Incompetence and neglect Old Benjamin = Cynicism and skepticism
Match the following Animal Farm characters with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
Match the following Animal Farm characters with their allegorical counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
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Match the following Animal Farm characters with their real-life counterparts in the Russian Revolution:
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Match the following Animal Farm elements with their real-life parallels in the Russian Revolution:
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Match the following events in Animal Farm with their real-life parallels in the Russian Revolution:
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Study Notes
Animal Farm and Russian Revolution Parallels
- Animalism, a belief in equality for all animals, is spread by Major, paralleling Karl Marx's invention of Communism.
- Snowball, a true believer in Animalism, is chased away by Napoleon's dogs, paralleling Leon Trotsky's exile and murder.
- Napoleon, a rival of Snowball, becomes a power-hungry tyrant, paralleling Joseph Stalin's rise to power and tyrannical rule.
- Squealer, an expert propagandist, convinces animals through fear and manipulation, paralleling the role of Stalin's propaganda department.
- Dogs, used to enforce Napoleon's rule through violence and fear, parallel Lenin's secret police, the KGB.
- Moses the Raven, used by Napoleon to control the animals, parallels the use of religion by Stalin to pacify the population.
- Boxer, a loyal worker betrayed by Napoleon, represents the dedicated but deceived supporters of Stalin.
- Sheep, mindlessly loyal to Napoleon, represent the masses swayed by propaganda in Stalin's Russia.
- Benjamin, skeptical of the Revolution and its leaders, represents the cynics in and outside of Russia who doubted the success of Communism.
- The slaughtering of animals who confessed parallels the Moscow Purge Trials, where confessions led to executions under Stalin's rule.
- The windmill, meant to exhaust animals and keep them busy, parallels Stalin's Five Year Plan to increase productivity but at great cost to the people.
- The Hen Rebellion and resistance of the totalitarian regime by peasants reflect the real-life resistance and consequences faced by those opposing the Soviet government.
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Explore the striking parallels between George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and the Russian Revolution in this quiz. From the rise of Animalism to the oppressive rule of Napoleon, delve into the allegorical connections to key events and figures from Soviet history. Test your knowledge of the symbolic representation of the Russian Revolution in this classic literature.
