About the Book
Source: Wikia. Pages: 54. Chapters: 1984, Adriatic Sea, Albania, By the Arch Repairs, Capitalism, Catholicism, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, Communism, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Crosstime Traffic, Cuban Missile Crisis, Duomo of Milan, Europe, Fanta, Fascism, France, Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle II, Germany, Hoxha Polytechnic, Inferno, Italian Communist Party, Italian Fascist Party, Italy, KGB, May Day, Milan, Poland, Popular fronts, Rails across Europe, Rimini, Russian Revolution, San Marino, Security Police of the Italian People's Republic, Sharashka, Siberia, Soccer, Soviet Union, The Battleship Potemkin, The Communist Manifesto, The Conductor's Cap, The Gladiator, The Gladiator, The Grapes of Wrath, The Incredibles, The Iron Heel, The Three Sixes, Tirane, Tobacco, United States of America, Vatican, Vietnam, Vietnam War, World Cup Finals of 2086, World War II, Young Socialists' League, Zek. Excerpt: Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, written in 1948 and published in 1949. The main character, Winston Smith lives in a post-civil war United Kingdom ruled by the English Socialism (Ingsoc) Movement. Mark Gordian's Watergate was favorably compared to 1984, an acknowledged classic by 1953. Despite its criticism of the excesses of communism, 1984 was still required reading for students around the globe on the pretext that it was a critique of capitalism. Most instructors, when pressed by their students, argued that "Ingsoc" was not truly socialist, but rather an exercise in "mystification." Comrade Pellagrini, for example, compared Ingsoc to the National Socialist Workers' Party, which used socialist concepts to mystify its followers, but was not truly socialist. The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The Adriatic Sea is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. Th...