Why was the story Animal Farm written?

is a scathing critique of the Russian Revolution and Soviet Communism, but at its
heart, like many of 's works, it is a critique of dictatorship. The story itself shows the
gullible nature of people and the ease with which movements and governments are subverted and
destroyed. Orwell, who was a socialist, wrote the story as a cautionary tale for anyone who held
up Soviet Russia, the Russian Revolution, or Communism as examples to follow.

In a letter to his friend Dwight Macdonald, written in 1946, Orwell explains
that:

What I was trying to say was, "You can't have
a revolution...

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