Talk:Snowball (Animal Farm)
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who is Trotsky in the novel Animal Farm
Trotsky is represented by Snowball in the novel Animal Farm, since as a parallel to Trotsky, Snowball was ostracized by a leader who later on turned out to be harsh (Napoleon). Both had ideas of Permanent Revolution in which more rebellions would be encouraged in order to keep the nation protected.
Indeed, to expand on the above, in what is perhaps the most explicit parallel of Trotsky's revolutionary philosophy, Snowball wants to use the pigeons on the farm in order to ferment discord in neighbouring farms (permanent revolution). Napoleon, on the other hand, thinks it best to protect the farm first and foremost (akin to Stalin's 'Socialism in one country' philosophy).
Also, in a further parallel to Trotsky, Snowball was the leader of the animals during the Battle of the Cowshed. Trotsky, of course, commanded the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
