About This Lesson
George Orwell’s Animal Farm was published in 1945. It’s message was explicitly political. A statement and a satire against Stalinism and the dictatorial socialism of the Soviet Union. Understanding this allegory gave deeper meaning to the talking animals who take control of their farm. Seventy years later does this message of failed revolution resonate in a communist nation with a similar revolution and trajectory? Listen to learn how a later a theatrical adaptation of the book is being understood in modern day China
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