1. Animal Farm An Allegory of the Russian Revolution

2. ALLEGORY: A work (book, play, movie, etc.) in which the characters and events represent other things, as well as a deeper symbolic (often moral or political) meaning

3. Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

4. Economy The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (How stuff and work gets made/happens, moved around, and used up)

5. Communism—a Utopia A utopia (Greek for “no place”)=an ideal—a place where everything is perfect and everyone is happy Communism—an idea of a utopia based on the principal of equality and sharing—everybody works, everybody shares --”From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

6. Russian Peasants--feudalism

7. St. Petersburg, 1917

8. Tsar Nicholas II & Family

9. Vladimir Lenin—the Bolsheviks

10. Socialism A system of government where the state controls the means of production (the ways stuff gets made) and distribution (who gets the stuff and how)

11. Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin