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This essay discusses the background and the contents of the novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four', by George Orwell, tracing the novel and Orwell's experience in the Spanish civil war, in which he enlisted in a marxist militia unit which was later liquidated in a brutal purge by communist adhering to a strictly Stalinist line. The writer discusses that Orwell saw totalitarian regimes as existing to perpetuate their own power, entirely without ideals.

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"In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', George Orwell set out to create a totalitarian world. To a frightening degree, he succeeded and his novel has become a watchword and symbol for totalitarianism to this day. Part of the reason for Orwell's success in 1984 was that he was sadly familiar with totalitarianism. In 1936, Eric Blair (Orwell's real name) went to Barcelona, Spain, as an observer and reporter. He soon enlisted in a Marxist but anti-Stalinist militia unit fighting in the Civil War. He was later wounded, and soon found himself involved in street fighting in Barcelona. when the unit to which he was attached was denounced and ..."

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