Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Russian Revolution
Ever wonder what Nicholas II, Lenin or the French Ambassador would have tweeted if Twitter existed in 1917. Well now you can! This is an incredible undertaking by RT and Russian scholars to use diaries, letters, memoirs and other documents to craft tweets of the events of 1917 as key historical figures might have written. You can follow #1917Live on Twitter or check the 1917 website.
Animal Farm started with a look into the cause and effects of the Russian Revolution and the drastic change in the power structure of a large country. However, Orwell didn't stop there and his insight into power dynamics is still accurate today.
Want to know more?
Britannica: Russian Revolution
History Channel: Russian Revolution
MIT: The Deepening of the Russian Revolution 1917
University of Warwick: Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1917-1928
Time Magazine: The Bolshevik October Revolution
Digital History Reader: Did the War Cause a Revolution?
How Propaganda Works to Persuade
Articles and videos with examples of Propaganda
Alia Hoyt "How Propaganda Works" 24 September 2008. HowStuffWorks.com <https://people.howstuffworks.com/propaganda.htm> 14 October 2020
“Propaganda Techniques,” Holt Literature & Language Arts, Introductory Course, 2003, pp. 643-645
Dan Newuharth, Ph.D., MFT "12 Classic Propaganda Techniques Narcissists Use to Manipulate You" 1 April 2019. PsychCentral.com. <https://blogs.psychcentral.com/narcissism-decoded/2017/09/12-classic-propaganda-techniques-narcissists-use-to-manipulate-you/> 14 October 2020
Noah Tavlin "How False News Can Spread" 27 August 2015. YouTube.com. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkg>
Animal Farm by George Orwell
PDF eBook, Audiobook and Video Adaptations
Animal Farm, anti-utopian satire by George Orwell, published in 1945. One of Orwell’s finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up an egalitarian society of their own. Eventually the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution. Concluding that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (with its addendum to the animals’ seventh commandment: “All animals are equal”), the pigs form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters. "Animal Farm." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 24 Sep. 2015.
3. Visual Adaptations of Animal Farm
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Film presented on TNT in 1999 with animatronics and real animals.
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Study Guides for Understanding Animal Farm
Need help guiding your study of the novel from home? Use study guides like:
Want more help? How about this complete study guide from Glencoe Literature Library with explanations and activities.
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Literature Pairings to Animal Farm from Common Lit
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