George Orwell's 1945 allegorical novella — in which farm animals overthrow their farmer only to find the pigs establishing a new tyranny — the most widely read anti-Stalinist allegorical fiction.
Creates the most accessible anti-totalitarian allegory — Animal Farm translates the Russian Revolution and Stalinist betrayal into a farmyard fable that is comprehensible to anyone; 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' is the most precise literary description of ideological corruption.
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