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by Dorian Lynskey


  “One of the biggest challenges”—My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Episode 1, Netflix, 2018.

  “the Ministry of Truth with ML systems”—Twitter, @alexstamos, October 7, 2017.

  The Washington Post calculated—At https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database.

  “Truth isn’t truth!”—Meet the Press, NBC, August 19, 2018.

  “Many dangerous ideas”—Dee Rees in Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Gollancz, 2017), p. 54.

  “What you’re seeing”—Donald Trump speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, July 24, 2018.

  “The party told you to reject”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 84.

  “one is reminded of what Orwell got right”—Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America,” Newyorker.com, January 27, 2017.

  “I am willing to believe”—“Looking Back on the Spanish War,” CW XIII, 1421, p. 504.

  “If men continue to believe”—Life, July 4, 1949.

  AFTERWORD

  “2 + 2 = 5”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 303.

  “I think you need that moment”—Author interview with Michael Radford.

  “spirit of Man”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 282.

  “power of facing unpleasant facts”—Orwell, “Why I Write,” CW XVIII, 3007, p. 316.

  “To read this novel”—Partisan Review, July 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 270.

  “for the future, for the unborn”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 9.

  “are not indestructible”—Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press,” CW XVII, 2721, p. 258.

  INDEX

  NOTE: George Orwell is also referred to as GO in this index.

  A.D. 2050: Electrical Development at Atlantis (Bachelder), ref1

  Adam, Eugene, ref1

  The Adelphi (Orwell), ref1

  After London (Jefferies), ref1

  Aims of Industry, ref1

  “Aladdin Sane (1913–197?)” (Bowie), ref1

  Albert, Eddie, ref1

  Allbeury, Ted, ref1

  Allen, Woody, ref1

  All-Russian Union of Writers (VSP), ref1, ref2

  Alphaville (Godard), ref1

  alternative facts, ref1

  Altrurian Trilogy (Howells), ref1

  Alverson, Charles, ref1

  Amalrik, Andrei, ref1

  American Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref1

  Amis, Kingsley, ref1

  Amis, Martin, ref1

  Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Anand, Mulk Raj, ref1

  Andersen, Hans Christian, ref1

  Anderson, Laurie, ref1

  Anderson, Michael, ref1

  Animal Farm (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  CIA-funded film version, ref1

  critical response, ref1, ref2, ref3

  erosion of memory, ref1

  preface, ref1, ref2

  proto-Newspeak, ref1

  publication, ref1, ref2

  radio debut, ref1

  Russian version, ref1

  sales and earnings, ref1, ref2

  as Soviet allegory, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Spanish Civil War, ref1

  translations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Anthem (Rand), ref1, ref2

  Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Wells), ref1

  antisemitism, ref1, ref2

  “Antisemitism in Britain” (Orwell), ref1

  anti-utopias. See dystopia

  Appendix Theory, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Applebaum, Anne, ref1

  Apple Computer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Arendt, Hannah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Arrival and Departure (Koestler), ref1

  Artists in Uniform (Eastman), ref1

  “The Art of Donald McGill” (Orwell), ref1

  Asimov, Isaac, ref1, ref2

  “As I Please” column, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  al-Assad, Bashar, ref1

  Assignment in Utopia (Lyons), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Astor, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Astor, John Jacob, ref1

  Astra, Gunārs, ref1

  atomic bombs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Attila (Zamyatin), ref1

  Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  democratic socialism, ref1, ref2

  Labour government, ref1, ref2, ref3

  National Health Service, ref1

  1945 election victory, ref1

  Atwood, Margaret, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (Wells), ref1

  Averbakh, Leopold, ref1, ref2

  Ayer, A. J., ref1, ref2

  Bachelder, John, ref1

  Bacon, Francis, ref1, ref2

  Bannier, Louis, ref1

  Basic English, ref1

  Batchelor, Joy, ref1

  Baum, L. Frank, ref1

  BBC, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  GO’s employment, ref1, ref2, ref3

  television service, ref1

  wartime propaganda, ref1, ref2

  Beausobre, Iulia de, ref1

  Beauvoir, Simone de, ref1

  Beaverbrook, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Beckett, Samuel, ref1

  Beckwith, Reginald, ref1

  Bedford, Sybille, ref1

  Beevor, Antony, ref1

  Bell, Daniel, ref1

  Bellamy, Charles, ref1

  Bellamy, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Bellamy, Francis, ref1

  Belloc, Hilaire, ref1

  Bellow, Saul, ref1

  Benn, Anthony Wedgwood, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bennett, Arnold, ref1, ref2

  Bentham, Jeremy, ref1

  Benton, Kenneth, ref1

  Berdiaeff, Nicolas, ref1

  Berzin, Yan, ref1, ref2

  Betjeman, John, ref1

  The Betrayal of the Left (ed. Gollancz), ref1

  Between Two Men (le Gros Clark), ref1

  Beuys, Joseph, ref1

  Bevan, Aneurin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Bevin, Ernest, ref1

  Bezymensky, Alexander Ilyich, ref1

  “Big Brother” (Bowie), ref1, ref2

  “Big Brother” (Wonder), ref1

  Big Brother TV show, ref1

  Black Mirror (Brooker), ref1

  Black Panthers, ref1

  Blade Runner (Scott), ref1

  Blair, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  death, ref1, ref2

  on GO, ref1, ref2, ref3

  marriage to GO, ref1

  Spanish Civil War, ref1, ref2

  World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Blair, Eric Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 See also Orwell, George

  Blair, Ida, ref1, ref2

  Blair, Richard, ref1, ref2

  Blair, Richard Horatio, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Blake’s 7 series (BBC), ref1

  Bloom, Harold, ref1

  Bokhari, Z. A., ref1, ref2

  Bolan, Marc, ref1

  Book-of-the-Month Club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Borkenau, Franz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Bower, Anthony, ref1

  Bowie, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Boys in Brown (Beckwith), ref1

  Bracken, Brendan, ref1

  Bradbury, Ray, ref1

  Bragg, Billy, ref1,

  Bramah, Ernest, ref1

  Branson, Richard, ref1

  Branthwaite, Jack, ref1

  Brave New World (Huxley), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Brazil (Gilliam), ref1, ref2

  Brech, Ronald, ref1

  Brenton, Howard, ref1

  Brewin, Bob, ref1
r />   Brexit campaign, ref1, ref2

  Brezhnev, Leonid, ref1

  Britain 1984: Unilever’s Forecast (Brech), ref1

  British Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref1

  British Union of Fascists, ref1

  Brockway, Fenner, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Brooker, Charlie, ref1

  The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), ref1

  Bryan, William Jennings, ref1

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, ref1

  Buddicom, Jacintha, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Burdekin, Katharine, ref1

  Burgess, Anthony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Burgess, Guy, ref1

  Burmese Days (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Burnham, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Burroughs, William S., ref1, ref2

  Burton, Richard, ref1

  Bush, George W., administration, ref1

  Butler, Samuel, ref1

  cacotopia, ref1

  Caesar’s Column (Donnelly), ref1

  Cage, John, ref1

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur, ref1

  Cameron, Angus, ref1

  Cameron, James, ref1

  Camus, Albert, ref1, ref2

  “Can Socialists Be Happy?” (Orwell), ref1

  Cantril, Hadley, ref1

  Cape, Jonathan, ref1, ref2

  Čapek, Karel, ref1

  capitalism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Carlile, Alex, ref1

  Carlyle, Thomas, ref1

  Cartier, Rudolph, ref1

  Cauchemar (Souvarine), ref1

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chalfont, Lord, ref1

  Chamberlain, Neville, ref1, ref2

  “Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family” (Bowie), ref1

  Chaplin, Charlie, ref1

  Chekhov, Anton, ref1

  Chesterton, G. K., ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chiat/Day agency, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chicago World’s Fair, ref1

  Children of Men (Cuarón), ref1, ref2

  Chile, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chomsky, Noam, ref1

  Christen, Miranda, ref1, ref2

  A Christmas Carol (Dickens), ref1

  Churchill, Randolph, ref1

  Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  autobiography, ref1

  1945 electoral loss, ref1, ref2

  on Nineteen Eighty-Four, ref1

  speeches, ref1

  See also World War II

  The Churchill Play (Brenton), ref1

  CIA, ref1

  The Circle (Eggers), ref1

  Civil Assistance, ref1

  Clark, J. B., ref1

  Clarke, Thurston, ref1

  the Clash, ref1

  A Clergyman’s Daughter (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Clinton, Hillary, ref1

  A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Clow, Lee, ref1

  Cockburn, Alexander, ref1

  Coefficients, ref1

  cognitive bias, ref1

  Cohn, Roy, ref1, ref2

  cold war, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  1970s pessimism, ref1

  adaptations of GO’s works, ref1, ref2, ref3

  anti-communist orthodoxy, ref1, ref2

  blacklisted books, ref1

  dystopian fiction, ref1

  former communists, ref1, ref2

  GO’s list of names, ref1

  Hungarian uprising, ref1

  McCarthyism, ref1

  Noncommunist Left, ref1

  Orwellian language, ref1

  See also post-war era

  The Collapse of Democracy (Moss), ref1

  The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, ref1

  Collins, Norman, ref1

  Collins, Suzanne, ref1

  Comfort, Alex, ref1

  comic books, ref1, ref2

  The Coming Struggle for Power (Strachey), ref1

  Coming Up for Air (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Committee for the Free World, ref1

  Common, Jack, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  communism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  anti-war beliefs, ref1

  capitalist propaganda on, ref1

  Comintern/Cominform organisations, ref1, ref2

  The Daily Worker publication, ref1

  fall of the Soviet Union, ref1

  GO’s critiques, ref1, ref2

  Rand’s critiques, ref1

  See also Soviet Union

  The Communist International (Borkenau), ref1

  Communist Party of Germany, ref1

  Communist Party of Great Britain, ref1, ref2

  The Complete Works of George Orwell (ed. Davison), ref1

  computer technology and data, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Comte, Auguste, ref1

  Conan Doyle, Arthur, ref1, ref2

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, ref1, ref2

  Connolly, Cyril, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  fiction, ref1

  on GO, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Horizon magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Connor, William, ref1

  Conrad, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Conservative Party (Britain), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  1945 electoral loss, ref1, ref2

  Constantine, Murray. See Burdekin, Katharine

  Conway, Kellyanne, ref1

  Cooper, Lettice, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Corbett, Elizabeth, ref1

  Cosgrave, Patrick, ref1, ref2

  Cottman, Stafford, ref1

  Coulson, William F., ref1

  The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells), ref1

  Cox, Jo, ref1

  Crane, Stephen, ref1

  Crick, Bernard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Cripps, Stafford, ref1

  Crist, Judith, ref1

  Critical Essays (Orwell), ref1

  Crome Yellow (Huxley), ref1

  Cronkite, Walter, ref1, ref2

  Crossman, Richard, ref1

  A Crystal Age (Hudson), ref1

  The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (BBC), ref1

  Cuadernos magazine, ref1

  Cuarón, Alfonso, ref1

  Cunningham, Merce, ref1

  Curran, Charles, ref1, ref2

  Curtis, Jamie Lee, ref1

  Cushing, Peter, ref1, ref2

  The Daily Worker, ref1

  Dakin, Humphrey, ref1, ref2

  Dakin, Marjorie Blair, ref1, ref2

  Dalí, Salvador, ref1, ref2

  Dalos, György, ref1, ref2

  Dalton, Hugh, ref1

  Danger Man, ref1

  Darkness at Noon (Koestler), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Darrow, Clarence, ref1

  Das Kapital (Marx & Engels), ref1

  Davies, John, ref1

  Davison, Peter, ref1

  DC Comics, ref1

  Dead Kennedys, ref1

  Deakins, Roger, ref1

  Dean, Abner, ref1

  The Death of British Democracy (Haseler), ref1, ref2

  Debs, Eugene, ref1, ref2

  “Declaration of the Rights of Man” (Wells), ref1

  democratic socialism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  de Mol, John, Jr., ref1

  Der Monat magazine, ref1, ref2

  de Rochemont, Louis, ref1

  Destiny (Edgar), ref1

  The Destruction of Gotham (J. Miller), ref1

  Deutscher, Isaac, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Diamond Dogs (Bowie), ref1

  Dick, Philip K., ref1

  Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  disinformation. See propaganda and lies

  Disney, Walt, ref1, ref2

  The Dispossessed (Le Guin), ref1

  Djilas, Milovan, ref1

  Doctorow, E. L., ref1

  “Dodo” (Bowie), ref1

  Donnelly, Ignatius, ref1
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  Dos Passos, John, ref1, ref2

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, ref1, ref2

  Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  The Dream (Wells), ref1

  Dr. Heidenhoff ’s Process (Bellamy), ref1

  Dugin, Aleksandr, ref1

  Dukes, Paul, ref1

  Dunn, Avril Blair, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Dunn, Bill, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Durrell, Lawrence, ref1

  Dutt, R. Palme, ref1

  dystopia, ref1, ref2

  dystopian fiction, ref1, ref2, ref3

  feminist forms, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Huxley’s Brave New World, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  literature of disillusionment, ref1

  mutability of myth in, ref1

  science and technology in, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wells’s impact, ref1, ref2

  Zamyatin’s We, ref1

  See also Nineteen Eighty-Four

  dystopian terminology, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  in Animal Farm, ref1

  brainwashing, ref1

  cold war, ref1, ref2

  fabrication and usage, ref1, ref2

  Ogden’s Basic English model, ref1

  See also Nineteen Eighty-Four phrases and concepts; propaganda and lies

  Eastern Europe, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Eastman, Max, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Eccleston, Christopher, ref1

  Eder, Richard, ref1

  Edgar, David, ref1

  Edmonds, Ben, ref1

  Eggers, Dave, ref1

  Eisenhower, Dwight, ref1, ref2

  Electric Dreams anthology, ref1

  Eliot, T. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Elton, Ben, ref1

  The Emerald City of Oz (Baum), ref1

  Empson, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Encounter magazine, ref1

  The English Utopia (Morton), ref1

  An Epic of the Gestapo (Dukes), ref1

  Equality (Bellamy), ref1

  Erewhon (Butler), ref1

  Escape, ref1

  Esperanto, ref1

  Esslin, Martin, ref1

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ref1

  European Union, ref1

  Eurythmics, ref1

  Ezquerra, Carlos, ref1

  Faber, Geoffrey, ref1

  Fabian Essays in Socialism, ref1

  Fabian Society, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Facebook, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Facial Justice (Hartley), ref1

  Fahrenheit 9/11 (M. Moore), ref1

  Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), ref1, ref2, ref3

  The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, ref1

  Farmer, Richard N., ref1

  Farrer, David, ref1

  fascism, ref1, ref2, ref3

  capitalism and, ref1, ref2, ref3

  contemporary relevance, ref1, ref2

 

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