... below. To gain a deeper understanding and context of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its heavy political and social commentary, it is worth briefly considering the author himself, George Orwell. An anarchist in the 1920s, by the 1930s Orwell considered himself a socialist and in late 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Here he ... in fear of his life from Soviet-backed communists who were oppressing revolutionary socialist dissenters1. The experience left Orwell a staunch anti-Stalinist, and as such anti-Stalinist the...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate