Animal Farm Allegory

Animal Farm by George Orwell can be viewed as a historical allegory to communism and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Old Major can be seen as Karl Marx who gets all the animals to start to have communist values. Napoleon can be viewed as Stalin because his corrupt actions are similar to Stalin's. Snowball can be viewed as Trotsky, who gets kicked out by Napoleon just as Trotsky got kicked out of the communist party by Lenin. Snowball is probably one of Stalin's officials, and the dogs represent the NKVD, Stalin's secret police. George Orwell probably wrote about the Russian Revolution because he was alive during the time, so it makes sense that Animal Farm is about communism.