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Unravel Orwell's 1984: A chilling look at totalitarian control, surveillance, and the manipulation of truth. Explore Newspeak, Big Brother, and Winston's fight for reality. A vital warning on freedom and thought.Ali, E. H. F. "The Dystopian Elements of Government in Orwell’s Novel 1984." Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, vol. 4, no. 2, 2023. doi:10.58256/rjah.v4i2.1072."[Discussion] George Orwell: A Collection of Essays." Reddit, r/bookclub."Aftermath of World War II." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation."[Socialists] 'Orwell Was a Socialist.'" Reddit, r/CapitalismVSocialism.Bloom, Harold, editor. George Orwell's 1984. Chelsea House, 2004.Clayton, Rebecca. "How Did George Orwell's Life Influence his Literature?" TheCollector.Clayton, Rebecca. "The Spanish Civil War and George Orwell: A Powerful Transformation of a Once Naive Man."Dandridge, Chandler. "Nineteen Eighty-Four Was Written by a Socialist." Jacobin.Dilmaç, Julie Alev, and Özker Kocadal. "Exchanging Glances with Big Brother: Diffuse Surveillance in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Today." Sciences & Actions Sociales, no. 12, 2019, pp. 10-32. doi:10.3917/sas.012.0010.Elliffe, Peter. "Idealism and Naiveté: On Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”." Applied Unificationism, 9 May 2025.Enteen, George M. "GEORGE ORWELL AND THE THEORY OF TOTALITARIANISM: A 1984 RETROSPECTIVE." The Journal of General Education, vol. 36, no. 3, 1984, pp. 206-215.Glanzberg, Michael. "Truth." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 2023.Hedger, Daniel. "George Orwell and the Importance of Clear Communication." Hook Media, Apr. 2018.Liao, Madison. "A Survey of Surveillance: Origins and Implications of Surveillance and Surveillance Technologies." The Macksey Journal, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 10-32. doi:10.1353/mj.2022.0003.Little, Daniel. "A Conversation with Gemini about Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier." Understanding Society, 15 Apr. 2025.Lynskey, Dorian. The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984. Doubleday, 2019."The Nazi Rise to Power." Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."Nineteen Eighty-Four." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation.Nove, Alec. Stalinism. The Historical Association, 1987."The Origins of Totalitarianism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation.Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. HarperCollins, 1949.Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Gangrel, Summer 1946.Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Gangrel, Summer 1946.Phillips, Brian, et al. SparkNotes: George Orwell - 1984. Spark Publishing, 2002."Revisiting the Road to Wigan Pier." Socialism Today.Tribhuwan, Muskan Manishka, and Reena Singh. "The Dystopian Vision of Control in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell." International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR).Tribhuwan, Muskan Manishka, and Reena Singh. "Orwell'S 1984 and the Concept of Powerlessness." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2020, pp. 289-96. doi:10.22161/ijels.51.48.Satta, Mark. "George Orwell (1903—1950)." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Wirawan, Muh. Firsa. Joseph Stalin in History and in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Comparative Analysis. 2020. Universitas Hasanuddin, Master’s thesis."Word Games: Wittgenstein, Orwell, Humpty Dumpty and Big Brother." Times of India.
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