Animal Farm

Animal Farm is George Orwell's satirical allegory of the history of the Soviet Union, beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution, through Lenin, and into Stalinist-era Soviet Union; it is fundamentally a critique of the corruption of socialist values that Orwell saw in the Soviet Union. That corruption is famously summed up in the phrase "All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others" — a slogan which replaced earlier idealistic slogans, including "All Animals Are Equal."

Animal Farm has been made into a number of films, and has been parodied/paid homage in Anarchist Farm by Jane Doe.

It was preceded by Bunt (The Outrage), a short novel published in 1924 by Nobel-Prize winner Wladyslaw Reymont, which similarly described a revolution of animals that took over their farm to create equality, but the revolution devolved into bloody terror. This novel, like the much more famous Animal Farm, was an allegorical treatment of the Bolshevik Revolution.