George Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegory of Stalinism

Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements of human nature which can produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. Orwell, does however, set his fable in familiar …

…course, that the animals´ revolution has been betrayed by the selfishness and will to power of the pigs who, like the communist party in Russia, have controlled it from the beginning; and the living conditions of the animals are in the end no better than they were under their human exploiters. Instead of gaining freedom the animals only have exchanged one set of masters for another. The vision with which they began has been corrupted.