Animal Farm is a classic portrayal of anti-utopianism in the real world. George Orwell expresses his views of totalitarianism using animals to represent the major characters from the period of the Russian Revolution. He uniquely documents the events that led to the formation of the U.S.S.R. His characters and storyline paint a vision of a world of communism and fear. Animal Farm chronicles the events and people of the Russian Revolution. Orwell’s detailed characters symbolize the famous personalities of the Russian Revolution. Marx is represented by Old Major, who sparks the other farm animals to rebellion in the beginning of the novel. The animals live on Manor Farm, owned by Mr. Jones, who represents the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Two pigs take control of the farm, Napoleon and Snowball, representing Stalin and Trotsky respectively. According to the animals: “with their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume leadership.” The Russian newspaper Pravda is represented by Squealer. “The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.” He makes Napoleon’s actions seems reasonable. Germany is represented by the neighbor Mr. Frederick. England is represented by Mr. Pilkington. Two horses on the farm, Clover and Boxer, are representative of the common workers. Clover is the apathetic educated worker, as well as Benjamin, the donkey. Stalin’s bodyguards are represented by Napoleon’s guard of fierce dogs. Russia’s Duma is represented by Napoleon’s companions, all the other pigs on the farm. Shortly after the revolution, represented by the Battle of the Cowshed, Snowball starts making plans for the future of the farm. He starts with a windmill, symbolizing the Five Year Plan of Russia. Napoleon wants control of the farm alone and runs Snowball out, never to be seen again. He goes ahead with the windmill plan, showing hypocrisy for he previously criticized the very same plan. The windmill project fails three times due to natural events and man-made explosions by those that are jealous of the farm’s prosperity. Napoleon makes the animals build on and o, as they work harder for less feed than they had when Mr. Jones was in charge. Soon Napoleon starts negotiating with his neighbors, Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick, arranging to buy supplies for the newly christened Animal Farm. Napoleon doublecrosses each until both are enemies. Mr. Frederick sends the men that destroy the windmill. This symbolizes Germany’s attack on Russia. The pigs’ hypocrisy soon shows clearly though all those of the "higher class" choose not to see. They live in luxury in the farmhouse, which they once considered forbidden to all animals. Napoleon and the others change the rules freely to conform to their wishes. Their hypocrisy is not noticed by the workers on the farm, workers being everyone that is not a dog or a pig. Only Clover slightly recognizes the error of their ways, but does not care enough to do anything about it. Napoleon orders his bodyguard to slaughter animals in a so-called purge. The slaughtered animals confessed to having been spies or comrades with the expelled Snowball. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from pig to man again; but it was impossible to say which was which.” (139) The pigs wallow so much in their own hypocrisy that they do not care that everything they do now is what the revolution was supposed to change. The farm’s name changes back to the Manor Farm so the pigs are not thought to be against men. They are proud of their control over the other animals because it has made them so rich. The pigs are a classic example of people that crave so much power that they do not care whose life is destroyed. These type of people are common and will continue bringing wrongs into this world for many generations to come.