Orwell (or Orwellian) can refer to: Orwellian describes a situation, idea, or condition that George Orwell identified as being inimical to the welfare of a free-society. ...
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The former is an allegory of the corruption of the socialist ideals of the Russian Revolution by Stalinism, and the latter is Orwell's prophetic vision of the results of totalitarianism.
Orwell had returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and anti-Communist, but he remained to the end a man of the left and, in his own words, a "democratic socialist".
Orwell's descent into the lives of the poor in "The Road to Wigan Pier" strongly resembles that of Jack London's "The People of the Abyss", in which London disguises himself as a poverty stricken American sailor in order to investigate the lives of the poor in London.
Orwell, a committed socialist, went to Spain in December 1936 to report on the Spanish Civil War.
Orwell's scripts were broadcast to the people of India between the end of 1941 and early 1943.
Orwell's final book was influenced by his failing health and his disillusionment with a Labour government that had been elected with a large majority in the 1945 General Election but made little attempt to introduce the kind of socialism that he believed in.
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