Animal Farm by G. Orwell

One of the lasts books I've read is Animal Farm by George Orwell. Orwell published this novel on 17 August 1945 and it talks about a animal revolution against humans. There are a parallelism between Animal Farm and the Socialist revolution in 1917 in Russia (Soviet Union).

Plot (spoiler)
The story starts with a speech by Old Major, the oldest pig in the farm. He says that humans use all animals as slavers and encourages to the other animal to begin a rebellion and get the control of the farm. They should create a fair farm.

After few weeks Old Major died but the other animals got his message. In fact, they did the animal rebellion and expelled humans from the farm. From that moment, animals organize themselves; without human slavery. At the start all animals were glad for the new order because they work less than before.
Although, early started the troubles: pigs, the cleverest animals in the farm, were arguing for the power. Specially, Snowball and Napoleon pigs wanted the farm power. Their projects were opposed but both agreed with the revolution. After some quarrelling, Napoleon got the power (using violence).
Napoleon became the unique leader and he got some violent dogs to attack one that didn't agree with him. Besides, he created a "elite" formed by pigs which began to act like humans (they drunk alcohol, they wore clothes etc.) There wasn't any human in the farm but animals were slaves again.

Personal reflection

I think this book is a perfect way to know about Soviet Revolution: first of all Marx (Old Major) talked about a revolution. Then, Russian people did that rebellion (animals) and ejected Tsar (humans) and two leaders, Trotsky (Snowball) and Napoleon (Stalin) discussed for the power. Finally, Stalin get the power and established a dictatorship.