revolutions

A satire of the Soviet Union in which the animals take over running a farm, but find their utopain state turning into a dictatorship. Features 100 illustrations by artist Ralph Steadman, and Orwell's previously unpublished preface to the original edition.

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

Anita, a typically self-absorbed twelve-year-old living in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s, is surprised to discover her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Uses a newspaper format to describe the American, French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions.

A satire in fable form expressed through the animals of Manor Farm.