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George Orwell's Animal Farm is a novel about animals overthrowing the farm, much like the Bolsheviks overthrowing the Czar. The new leaders, the pigs, promise a better life if the follow them, like Marx's communist ideas of a better society. The ideals of the pig's promises never come to be and the animals suffer worse, Stalin promised the ideals of communism, but they never materialize. Stalin, the corrupt one, gains control of the Russian government and makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Similarly, Napoleon takes control of the pigs and corrupts the animal's government, then in turn makes the other animals suffer. Through the use of characterization, plot, and theme in George Orwell's Animal Farm historical parallels to the Russian Revolution are revealed. The use of characterization is very extensive in this novel, by using fictional characters to mock the real life people involved with the revolution. Barnyard animals, other than the pigs, represent the Bolsheviks, Not really knowing what they are doing but following because they don't like how the live now. Farmer Jones is much like the Czar Nicholas II being negligent of the animal