'''Animal Farm''' is a book written by [[George Orwell]] in 1946. The story portrays animals taking over a farm, satirizing to the [[communist]] takeover of [[Russia]] and the betrayal of the people by their leaders, who impose a totalitarian system consolidating and perpetuating the power of those leaders.
+
'''''Animal Farm''''' is a book written by [[George Orwell]] in 1946. The story portrays animals taking over a farm. The book is controversial, with one side downplaying comparisons to the [[USSR]] and playing up Orwell's support for [[socialism]]. The other side seeing the stori as satirizing to the [[communist]] takeover of [[Russia]] and the betrayal of the people by their leaders, who impose a totalitarian system consolidating and perpetuating the power of those leaders.