Historical Context of 1984 Why Orwell Wrote It

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Historical Context of 1984 Why Orwell Wrote It Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Soviet Union Nazi Germany War and Postwar Britain

Why Orwell Wrote It Against totalitarianism In favour of democratic socialism A warning against what could happen should a revolution be betrayed by those who started a revolution

Stalin’s Soviet Union Parallels between 1984 and the post-war Soviet Union: Big Brother: Stalin (General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1922) Goldstein: Trotsky (Expelled from Party and deported in ’23) Mutability of the Past: Stalin’s “unpersons” Two minutes hate: vilification of enemy States

Nazi Germany Dictators and totalitarian regimes in general Jr. AntiSex League and the Parsons children as Hitler Youth

Orwell’s Britain War: worked for BBC Eastern Service, where he supervised “broadcasts to India aimed at stimulating Indian interest in the war effort, at a time when the Japanese army was at India's doorstep. He was well aware that he was engaged in propaganda, and wrote that he felt like ‘an orange that's been trodden on by a very dirty boot’” (Wikipedia, Orwell entry)

Britain Cont’d Ministry of Information controlled the overseas service of the BBC Postwar Poverty in Britain The British Empire was losing power (but the news claimed otherwise) Cold War beginning (allies becoming enemies)

How Important is the Historical Aspet? Useful to know why Orwell wrote it AND to assess accuracy of his imagined future However…

References The following Wikipedia entries were consulted: George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four Joseph Stalin The Russian Revolution of 1917

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