The main characters of George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm (1945) represent historical figures of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including old Major the 12-year-old prized boar (Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin), the boars Napoleon (Joseph Stalin) and Snowball (Leon Trotsky), the farmer Mr. Jones (Tsar Nicholas II), the cart horse Boxer (the proletariat), and Squealer the pig (communist propaganda).
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