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1984 Author: First appearing in 1949, the novel 1984 seemed like a nightmarish vision of the future in a totalitarian world. Playing on the public's worst fears about governmental control, different readings saw the former Soviet Union as the object of satire, while others focused on increasingly powerful democratic governments. The title, George Orwell's 1... more »
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In "1984" George Orwell warned us about totalitarian control of the masses through revisionist history, perversion of the meaning of words, and relativism. While the urgency of his warning may have diminished with the fall of totalitarian communism, it's still relevant today in ways Orwell might not have anticipated.
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