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Totalarianism provoked George Orwell into writing '1984', the harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare. A book that for a time seemed to be passing into oblivion has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society.
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