In Chapter 1 of "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, the event from Russian history that most likely influenced the writing of this passage is the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which was inspired in the ideals of Lenin. Animal Farm is a critique of the Bolshevik Revolution and of the emergence and development of Soviet communism. It also shows the corruption of Animalistic ideals by those in power and the oppression of their once equals.