Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a 1945 allegorical novella by George Orwell that uses farm animals to satirize the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism, critiquing totalitarianism, power, and corruption. After overthrowing their human farmer, the animals establish their own society, but the pigs, led by the cunning Napoleon, gradually seize control, betraying the revolution's ideals of equality and creating a dictatorship even more oppressive than the original regime, famously summarized by the commandment: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".