In the early 1900s, Russia was a country ripe for revolution; With a tsarist autocracy in decline and deterioration due to poor leadership, overworked and poverty-stricken citizens, World War I underway and numerous attempts at economic, social or political reforms, the Russian people in had enough and decided that 1917 was the appropriate year. create the Bolshevik (Russian) revolution (Rosenberg). In the years preceding the establishment of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia experienced multiple wars (Rosenberg). “These wars included: the Crimean War (1854-1856), the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)” (Fernholz). (Russia was defeated in all of the wars listed above except the battle against Turkey.) Fighting in these wars demanded a lot from the Russian government; Films, poems and books were/are made about the revolution. One book that particularly stands out is Animal Farm, written by George Orwell. The book Animal Farm is an allegory in which the animals in the book represent the different people who had a great impact during the revolution. Additionally, the events in the book correlate with real events that occurred during the revolution. For example, in chapter two, George Orwell gives the reader insight into how the animals are poorly treated and overworked by their owner and farmer, Mr. Jones. The animals, in chapter two, represent Russian industrial workers and citizens as a whole, which then leads to the inference that Mr. Jones must represent Tsar Nicholas II. As the story develops, the animals fall into their different categories and representations, the categories being the different social classes and the representations being the different people. Additionally, over the course of the book, the animals go through the revolution and experience relapse when Stalin, represented by Napoleon in the story, takes over and becomes a