| Term | Definition |
| Animal Farm | Russia |
| Mr. Jones | Czar Nicholas II |
| Napoleon | Joseph Stalin |
| the pigs | the bolsheviks or reds |
| rebellion | october revolution |
| farmhouse | kremlin |
| mr. pilkington | britain |
| sqealer | pravada, the official newspaper of communist propaganda |
| boxer | loyal workers |
| beasts of england | l internationale |
| wild animals | russian peasants |
| moses | russian orthodox church |
| hoof and horn flag | hammer and sickle flag of soviet union |
| battle of cowshed | allied invasion of 1918-1919 |
| old major | karl marx or marxist leninist though |
| snowball | leon trotsky |
| mollie | white russians |
| mr. frederick | germany |