Many novels were written during the time of the Russian Revolution. Out of those, only a handful were actually published, this included the novella Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a Fairy tale which portrays events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. To help better understand the story, animals are used to represent important people. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the character Farmer Jones represents Tsar Nicholas II. Of everyone, Nicholas received all of the blame for the 1917 revolution and all that it produced for the world (“Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia”). Others thought that Nicholas was a weak and a witless ruler, who seemed to have cared more about his family
