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)