A short ppt of Soviet propaganda to parallel events in the first five chapters of Animal Farm. Posters from SovMusic.ru. Info beside posters is rough translation provided by SovMusic.ru, plus AF quotes.

1. ANIMAL FARM
AND THE
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
PROPAGANDA

2. Bolshevik
poster
encouraging
the Red Army
to fight the
Whites in the
Russian Civil
War of 1918-
1922

3. Bolshevik
Harvest
This parallels the Animals’
first harvest after the
expulsion of Jones.
“How they toiled and
sweated to get the hay in!

4. A Peasant
Patriot on
guard against
foreign
incursions
during the Civil
War

5. Comrade!
Join our
Collective
Farm!
“But everyone worked
according to his capacity”
(p 27).
“With the worthless
parasitical human beings
gone, there was more for
everyone to eat” (p 26).

6. Communist
Party Poster
Boxer represents the proletariat

7. Workers Build New and Destroy the
Obsolete

8. Five Year Plan
Stalin’s Five Year
Plans were designed
to catch up the USSR
to the Industrialized
Western Europe,
whose leaders are
shown here mocking
communist efforts,
and then being
disappointed that
they succeeded.
Parallel: Windmill

9. Under Lenin’s
Banner to the
Second Five
Year Plan

10. 8 Million Tonnes
of Steel for
developing
Socialism

11. New Five Year
Plan of Great
Building