Critical Essays The Russian Revolution. One of Orwell ‘s goals in writing was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive, totalitarian, and deadly than the one it overthrew. Many of the characters and events of Orwell’s novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution …

About . As Orwell spent more and more time with the down-and-outs of England, he became convinced that the only remedy for the invidious problem of poverty lay in , a political and economic philosophy arguing that only when the state controls the means of production and distribution will all members of a nation share its …

This article explores the critical reception of George Orwell’s between the Second World War and the present day. Detailing the conditions surrounding the text’s publication, immediate reception, and eventual canonization, the article illuminates how contradictions between Orwell’s support for international and his wartime embrace of popular English patriotism …