Russian Civil War aka "Battle of the Cowshed"
The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is about the Russian Revolution. Everything in the
book a representation of things that happened in the Russian Revolution. In the book the,
"Battle of the Cowshed", is a representation of the Russian Civil War. Instead of humans the
book uses animals to represent the people involved in the revolution. The Animal Farm, when
first read, seems like a silly story about a farm, but is actually about an important event in
history. The book's animals represent many of the people involved in the Russian Revolution.
Leon Trotsky is represented in the book by Snowball. Vladimir Lenin in the…show more content… The war lead the complaints about War Communism and
Bolshevik policies. Even the sailors at Krondstadt, who were supporters of Bolsheviks, rebelled
in protest of conditions. It lead to the replacement of War Communism with the New Economic
Policy.
The Russian Civil War is found in the novel at the “Battle of the Cowshed”. According to
Animal Farm the book, schools history.org, and Britannica the Reds in the book are the animals.
The Whites in the book are the humans that came to attack. In the book the animals took
control over the farm with force like how the Reds took over Russia with force. The humans
came back to try to take back the farm like how the Whites did to Russia. The humans were
defeated by the animals though like how the Whites were defeated by the Reds. The animals
won because Snowball knew how to make a good battle plan. “Snowball, who had studied an
old book of Julius Caesar’s campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of
the defensive operations”(40). The Reds won because Trotsky was a brilliant war leader and
strategist. The entire Russian War was all about a power struggle just like the “Battle of