Editing Animal Farm (section)

===Pigs===
* [[Old Major]] – An aged prize [[Middle White|Middle White boar]] provides the inspiration that fuels the rebellion. He is also called Willingdon Beauty when [[Animal show|showing]]. He is an [[allegorical]] combination of [[Karl Marx]], one of the creators of communism, and [[Vladimir Lenin]], the communist leader of the [[Russian Revolution]] and the early Soviet nation, in that he draws up the principles of the revolution. His skull being put on revered public display recalls Lenin, whose [[Lenin's Mausoleum|embalmed body was left in indefinite repose]].{{sfn|Rodden|1999|pp=5ff}} By the end of the book, the skull is reburied.
* [[Napoleon (Animal Farm)|Napoleon]] – "A large, rather fierce-looking [[Berkshire pig|Berkshire]] boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way".{{sfn|Orwell|1979|loc=chapter II|p=15}} An allegory of [[Joseph Stalin]],{{sfn|Rodden|1999|pp=5ff}} Napoleon is the leader of Animal Farm.
* [[Snowball (Animal Farm)|Snowball]] – Napoleon's rival and original head of the farm after Jones's overthrow. His life parallels that of [[Leon Trotsky]],{{sfn|Rodden|1999|pp=5ff}} although there is no reference to Snowball having been murdered (as Trotsky was); he may also combine some elements from Lenin.{{sfn|Hitchens|2008|pp=186ff}}{{efn|According to [[Christopher Hitchens]], "the persons of Lenin and Trotsky are combined into one [i.e., Snowball], or, it might even be&nbsp;... to say, there is no Lenin at all."{{sfn|Hitchens|2008|pp=186ff}}}}
* [[Squealer (Animal Farm)|Squealer]] – A small, white, fat [[Large White pig|large white]] who serves as Napoleon's second-in-command and minister of propaganda, is a collective portrait of the Soviet [[nomenklatura]] and journalists, such as of the national daily ''[[Pravda]] (The Truth)'', able to justify every twist and turn in Stalin's policy.{{sfn|Rodden|1999|pp=5ff}}
* Minimus – A poetic pig who writes the second national anthem of Animal Farm after the singing of "Beasts of England" is banned; later he composes a poem "Comrade Napoleon". Literary theorist John Rodden compares him to the poet [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]],{{sfn|Rodden|1999|p=11}} who eulogized Lenin and the Soviet Union, although Mayakovsky neither wrote anthems nor praised Stalin in his poems.
* The piglets – Hinted to be the children of Napoleon and are the first generation of animals subjugated to his idea of animal inequality.
* The young pigs – Four pigs who complain about Napoleon's takeover of the farm but are quickly silenced and later executed, the first animals killed in Napoleon's farm purge. Probably based on the [[Great Purge]] of [[Grigory Zinoviev]], [[Lev Kamenev]], [[Nikolai Bukharin]], and [[Alexei Rykov]].
* Pinkeye – A minor pig who is mentioned only once; he is the taste-tester that samples Napoleon's food to make sure it is not poisoned, in response to rumours about an assassination attempt on Napoleon.