George Orwell "Animal Farm" (Повiсть)

George Orwell (real name: Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterized by piercing social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support for the democratic aspirations of mankind. He is the author and popularizer of the term "cold war" in political discourse. The novel "Animal Farm" is one of the world's most famous allegorical works, first published on August 17, 1945. According to Orwell, the book describes the events of the 1917 revolution in the Russian Empire and the emergence of the Stalinist dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Orwell was a merciless critic of Stalin and an enemy of Stalinism since the Spanish Civil War. Orwell believed that the Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship based on the cult of personality and reinforced by the reign of terror. The easily recognizable characters and events of the book make it possible to look at the bloody and terrible pages of our country's history from a new perspective, and to get inoculated against the ideas of communism for many generations to come.