Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella by George Orwell

Animal Farm is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory novella by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historyof_the_Soviet_Union(1927%E2%80%931953) before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II. Orwell, a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism,^[1] was a critic of and hostile to Moscow-directedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD, and what he saw of the results of the influence of Communist policy ("ceaseless arrests, censored newspapers, prowling hordes of armed police" – "Communism is now a counter-revolutionary force"),^[2] during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".^{[3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#cite_note-Dav-2}