How does George Orwell use a 'fairy story' to criticize the Russian Revolution and its subsequent developments

'Animal Farm' is a novella by George Orwell that was written during Russia's height of communism power. Orwell cleverly disguises the true meaning and message of his novel 'Animal Farm' behind a fairy story. Writers such as Orwell often use social criticism in their books to show corruptness or weak points of a group in society. Underneath everything, the story is really an allegory whose deeper meaning concerns the Russian Revolution and rule under Josef …

…of a successful fairy story. Animal Farm is a simple fable of great symbolic value, which aims to prove that "human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy, or at least equally happy". It appears that the revolution was doomed from the beginning, and the story may also be seen as an analysis of the Soviet regime, or as a "warning against political games of an absolute nature and totalitarianism in general.