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George Orwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2250 words) |
 | 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. |
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| 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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