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An Essay on Historical Writing on Domestic Communism
and Anti-Communism
By John E...
The Orwell's perception of an ideal government is pretty much the same as Montesqueue describes in "Persian letters". They both seem to think that the best government would...
Joseph Stalin
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General Secretary / First Secretary
of the Central Committee of th...
George Orwell-1984
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Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of...
Study Notes
Context
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of...
‘The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc'. (Emm...
Orwell's society displays a threatening projection of a totalitarian system into the future. Indeed it is a regime very similar to the tyrannies of the 20th century and strong...
Beyond Coconuts
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Background on the Philippines……â€...
In one week, the summer of 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, became history. The forces of reform unleashed by President Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid 1980’...
Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political futures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by wa...