CHAPTERS 7-9PES

CHAPTER SEVEN: POLITICAL

• Agricultural projects that fail- the food bins

• Animal confessions- the leader hens

• Stalin’s “Five Year Plans”

• Stalin’s torture of suspected dissidents and their confessions- the purges.

CHAPTER SEVEN: ECONOMIC

• The windmill fails

• Longer hours for less food

• The general failure of the USSR in industrialization

• Massive inefficiencies in Stalin’s plans

CHAPTER SEVEN: SOCIAL

• Pigs become fatter and richer

• Animals fear for their lives

• Massive class division in the USSR

• Rampant fear in the USSR

CHAPTER EIGHT: POLITICAL

• Selling timber to Frederick

• Scapegoating Snowball

• Diplomatic tiptoeing Stalin practiced with his alliances

• Anti-Troskyist propaganda and scapegoating of Trotsky

CHAPTER EIGHT: ECONOMIC

• Forged banknotes from Frederick

• Destruction of the windmill

• Germany reneging on the Non-Aggression Pact

• Germany’s betrayal

CHAPTER EIGHT: SOCIAL

• The “glorious” Napoleon

• Public pride in and celebrations of patriotism in Animal Farm

• The “cult of personality” surrounding Stalin

• Constant celebrations in the USSR

CHAPTER NINE: POLITICAL

• Boxer’s betrayal

• Many work hard for the good of the pigs

• Betrayal of the Soviet Government regarding its people

• In the USSR, massive labor to support the Stalinist elite

CHAPTER NINE: ECONOMIC

• Boxer is worked to death

• Sale of Boxer to the glue factory

• The proletariat literally worked to death

• The economic bloating of the party elite at any means necessary

CHAPTER NINE: SOCIAL

• Return of Moses the Raven

• Constant work

• Stalin’s allowance of the return of the Russian Orthodox Church

• No leisure time- constant celebrations