George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 :: essays research papers

1984 Es word     After reading Orwells 1984 and examining Stalins rule over Soviet Russia it is safe to say that the two are very similar. Many features of Big Brother and Oceania mimic those of Stalin and the USSR. As well, the ability to change the truth and rewrite the past was abused for both(prenominal) regimes. Also, the Party and its enemies are actual representations of real people who were against Stalin and the USSR. Finally, Big Brother and Stalin did have some differences though very few. By discussing these points, a resemblance of the totalitarian leaders Big Brother and Stalin can be made.      Many features of Orwells imaginary superstate Oceania are from Soviet reality the Komsomol (Young Communists) appear as the Anti-Sex League, the unripe informers of the Pioneers turn up as the Spies, Soviet Five-Year Plans shrink into Oceania Three-Year Plans, and easily available vodka into Victory Gin. Like Stalins USSR, Oceania has its renegades and backsliders who are arrested at night, questioned by interrogators for counterrevolutionary activities and then either sent to the "saltmines" or "vaporised". As in Russia, the "comrades" of Oceania are given news bulletins consisting almost entirely of lists of industrial production figures, most of which are announced as "overfulfilled" and none of which are really true. As well, there are constant powercuts and shortages, all essentials being obtained through the underground "free market".     Winstons job of revisal in the Ministry of Truth consists of books and periodicals that are rewritten and photographs changed to reflect the "correct" or the latest view of past events was similar to events that happened in the USSR. One of Stalins corrections of the past was the Soviet-Nazi stipulation of 1939, this is very similar to the alliance of Oceania with its arch-enemy Eurasia against its form er ally Eastasia.      "Oceania was at war with Eastasia Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."     Big Brother, the all-seeing leader who murders his rivals, declares "a new, happy action" and, from posters and telescreens, rules over people conditioned by terror to love him, is of course Stalin himself. As well, Oceanias evil figure Emmanuel Goldstein, the counter-revolutionary author of "the book", and who the Party wages an interminable struggle with was much like how Trotsky was portrayed to the Soviet people. Stalins NKVD jailed millions for the imaginary crime of "Trotskyism" just as Big Brothers Thought Police repressed the pursuit of Goldstein.