Section 2: Texts

Core

• • Animal Farm, George Orwell, Signet Classics, 2004

• • “Joseph Stalin Explained in 25 Minutes — Best Stalin Documentary,” The Life Guide, YouTube, 2021
  • “Joseph Stalin — Dictator,” Biography, YouTube, 2012
  • “The Revolution That Shaped Russia — National Geographic,” National Geographic, YouTube, 2017

• • Afterword to Animal Farm from Signet Classics 75th Anniversary Edition, Russell Baker, Signet Classics, 1954
  • Excerpts from “Why I Write,” George Orwell, The Orwell Foundation, 1946
  • Introduction to 1954 edition of Animal Farm, C. M. Woodhouse, Signet Classics, 1954
  • “What Is Totalitarianism? Definition and Examples,” Robert Longley, ThoughtCo, 2022