Animal Farm Characters

Mr. Jones

Old Major

Snowball

Napoleon

Squealer

The Dogs

Moses the Raven

Mollie

Boxer

Benjamin

Overall Details about the Revolution

Russian Revolution

Czar Nicholas II

• a poor leader at best, compared to western kings
• cruel - sometimes brutal with opponents
• Sometimes kind - hired students as spies to make $

Karl Marx

• invented Communism
• "workers of the world unite", take over gov't
• dies before Russian Revolution

Leon Trotsky

• other leader of "October Revolution"
• pure communist, followed Marx
• wanted to improve life for all in Russia
• chased away by Lenin's KGB (Lenin's secret police)