Animal Farm Background Information

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Across
  1. 5. hero of the early Revolution
  2. 10. Orwell supported __________ during WWII
  3. 11. Stalin's government all but outlawed _____________
  4. 15. place where Orwell spent his early years
  5. 16. Animal Farm is an allegory of the ______________
  6. 22. Animal Farm was originally placed in this section of book stores
  7. 25. Orwell's age when he went to boarding school
  8. 26. Animal Farm tells the story of animals that rise up in ___________
  9. 30. Orwell's real name
  10. 31. represents Stalin's military police
  11. 32. rigged trials led to an estimated 20 million ______________
  12. 33. represents Karl Marx
  13. 34. Orwell felt ____________ of governments and power
Down
  1. 1. represented by Boxer & Clover
  2. 2. replaced Czar Nicholas II
  3. 3. deported Trotsky in permanent exile
  4. 4. represents the old Russian aristocracy
  5. 6. Orwell often opposed the crowd and was known as an ___________
  6. 7. represents Stalin's government news agency
  7. 8. Orwell published his book after this country surrendered
  8. 9. Orwell got the idea for Animal Farm when he saw a boy _________ a horse
  9. 12. respresents the Russian Orthodox church
  10. 13. Orwell began to write by dictating poems to his ___________
  11. 14. head of the communist party
  12. 17. Animal Farm contains a messsage about world politics of this country
  13. 18. Stalin wanted to move the Soviet Union into a modern ___________
  14. 19. the two characters that represent the fued between Stalin & Trostky
  15. 20. represents the general public
  16. 21. can be read on more than one level
  17. 23. poking fun at an issue
  18. 24. intellectuals in Europe believed that socialism would create a society where everyone was ________
  19. 27. Russians who were struggling to survive under Czar Nicholas' government
  20. 28. represents Czar Nicholas II
  21. 29. tactics used when peasants refused to give up their land