What inspired Orwell to write Animal Farm?

was inspired to write
this short novel by the Russian Revolution of 1917. Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his
role as Emperor of Russia, and he and his entire family were assassinated a year later by the
Bolsheviks. The character of , the pig who dies early in the story, is inspired by Vladimir
Lenin, andthe pig is Joseph Stalin whereasthe pig is Leon Trotsky.

Nicholas
was an...