Animal Farm is an allegory of the period in Russian history somewhere in the range of 1917 and 1944. It is a mocking story written as a animal tale. In composing Animal Farm as a tale, George Orwell can display his subject in straightforward emblematic terms by treating the development of communism as a story that is occurring on a solitary homestead with talking animals. The characters of the novel speak to figures in Russian history amid the Russian Revolution. One of the principle characters of Animal Farm is a symbolic parallel of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is the pig that develops as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Various occasions in the novel depend on ones that happened amid Stalin's rule. The War of the Cowshed parallels the Civil War that happened after the 1917 Revolution. Jones; Frederick speaks to Adolf Hitler who framed an alliance with Stalin in 1939 however who at that point ended up battling Stalin's armed force in 1941.