Snowball who is a brilliant talker and makes magnificent speeches. However, Napoleon overthrows Snowball as Stalin overthrew Trotsky and Napoleon takes over the farm the animals live on. Napoleon becomes a tyrant and uses force and propaganda to oppress the animals, while culturally teaching them that they are free. Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak describes the fate of Russian intelligentsia; the events take place between the Revolution of 1905 and World War II. The Red Wheel (1984–1991) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A cycle of novels that describes the fall of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Film The Russian Revolution has been portrayed in or served as backdrop for many films. Among them, in order of release date: The End of Saint Petersburg. 1927. Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller, USSR. October: Ten Days That Shook the World. 1927. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. Soviet Union. Black and White. Silent. Scarlet Dawn, a 1932 Pre-Code American romantic drama starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Nancy Carroll caught up in the fallout of the Russian Revolution. Knight Without Armour. 1937. A British historical drama starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat, with Dietrich as an imperiled aristocrat on the eve of the Russian Revolution. Lenin in 1918. 1939. Directed by Mikhail Romm, E. Aron, and I. Simkov. Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power. Doctor Zhivago. 1965. A drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean, filmed in Europe with a largely European cast, loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. Reds. 1981. Directed by Warren Beatty, it is based on the book Ten Days that Shook the World. Anastasia. 1997. An American animated feature, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. See also Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War April Crisis Foreign relations of the Soviet Union Arthur Ransome Preference falsification Explanatory footnotes References Further reading Acton, Edward, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg, eds. A Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921 (Bloomington, 1997). Ascher, Abraham. The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Publications, 2014) Brenton, Tony. Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution (Oxford UP, 2017). Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 2–3, Cambridge University Press. (vol. 2) (vol. 3). Chamberlin, William Henry. The Russian Revolution, Volume I: 1917–1918: From the Overthrow of the Tsar to the Assumption