Animal Farm: Stalin and Napoleon

The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it's members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition, I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin' s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts, their rise to power, Stalin's Five Year Plan, and their use and abuse of authority.
When Lenin died in 1924, a struggle for power began between Trotsky (Snowball) and Stalin (Napoleon). Trotsky…