More than any other phrase, it explains why this small book still looms large 80 years after its publication. The rebellion, ...

George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist ...

Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month ...

Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted ...

The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and ...

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.

A witty satire on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and Stalinism, the novel transcends its historical boundaries. It ...

Eighty years after George Orwell's biting political satire exposed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union, there is still ...

The specific case against Stalin in Animal Farm regards the Bolshevik Revolution. Upon Lenin’s death in 1922, Stalin jockeyed ...

Power corrupts incrementally through small compromises. The sentence you just read is not my own. I borrowed it from ‘Today ...