Illiterate

Animal Farm | teaching history with pigs

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Learn about how the CIA paid for the film version, the links to the Russian Revolution, and how the author (literally) lost his voice. This is a dive into a literary classic, Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Links:

  • (WATCH): the full 1954 version on YouTube:

    http://bit.ly/animalfarm1954

  • (WATCH): the full 1999 version on YouTube:

    http://bit.ly/animalfarm1999film

  • (READ) the missing preface about censorship:

    http://bit.ly/afpreface

  • (WATCH) China’s ban on Animal Farm in 2018:

    http://bit.ly/afchinaban

  • (READ) about the early Polish influence, Bunt:

    http://bit.ly/animalfarmbunt

  • (READ) the one-to-one parallels to Soviet history:

    http://bit.ly/sovietparallelsanimal

  • (READ) Orwell’s book, “Down and Out in Paris and London”:

    http://bit.ly/downoutpdf

  • (READ) the CIA’s balloon drop of Animal Farm into the Soviet Union:

    http://bit.ly/ciaballonsanimalfarm

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