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ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

In our blog this week, Andrew Palmer considers whether George Orwell's allegorical tale of the Russian revolution may have had an unexpected influence on a certain ex-president. Read it here

About the book: In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging ‘cold war’ (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning.

Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages.

ISBN 9781840228038 R.R.P. £2.50