totalitarianism

Provides background on the life of English novelist George Orwell and his influences, features eleven articles that explore the abuse of power in his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four, " and examines issues of the abuse of power in the late twenty-first and early twenty-first centuries.

A twelve-year-old boy moves from Seoul to a small provincial town and enrolls in the local school, where he finds himself the victim of a class monitor who uses fear and violence to control his classmates.

When teenager Adrian Havoc's world is taken over by Homestate, which uses religion to control its citizens, he sets out for the toxic Deadlands to uncover the truth about the government.

A political satire in which animals take over running a farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Depicts life in a totalitarian regime in the year of 1984.

Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the totalitarian regime that controls all human thought and action.

Bernard Marx becomes a citizen in an utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, and presents the social climate in 1958, and the threats against personal freedoms that seemed to be precursers to the novel's empty civilization.

A satire of the Soviet Union in which the animals take over running a farm, but find their utopain state turning into a dictatorship. Features 100 illustrations by artist Ralph Steadman, and Orwell's previously unpublished preface to the original edition.