In Animal Farm, is it Snowball who represents Troesky or Stalin?

Answer 1

Alittle of both! Snowball together with Napoleon, leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to the Russian government) by Napoleon in the later part of the story. Unlike Napoleon, he has the best interests of the animals in mind. He is most attuned to the thinking of Old Major (whose role resembles that of Lenin or perhaps Marx and Engels). He devotes himself to bettering the animals in intellectual, moral and physical ways. His role on the farm bears a significant and intended resemblance to the role of Leon Trotsky in the early Soviet Union. Snowball was actively changing Animal Farm, and though not all of his ideas worked very efficiently, they at least helped to make Animal Farm a better place. Like Trotsky, Snowball was exiled after Napoleon seizes power by force, modeled after Stalin. After Snowball is exiled, he is used as a political pawn and blamed for various things that go wrong on the farm. For example, he is blamed for weeds springing up in the crop because he supposedly mixed weed seeds into the wheat seeds under the cover of night. He is also blamed for the destruction of the windmill the animals had created, though as a pig he probably didn't have the capabilities to destroy such a thick windmill. Other animals make false confessions saying they helped him in his "nightly visits" and are executed brutally in public.

Answer 2

Trotsky, he is meant to embody the revolution. Napoleon is Stalin, who drives away the idealistic Snowball to consolidate his power