Related Works
1) Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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This book is an excellent source that recreates life in Russia during Joseph Stalin's time. Nearly everything during Stalin's reign, from the systematic surveillance of the people to facts about Stalin himself, is described in this book. It also gives insight of people's lives on a day to day basis. This novel relates to 1984 because it explains the very facts and historical events that influenced Orwell into creating his futuristic dystopia.
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2) Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Post-Soviet Russia by Judyth L. Twigg and Kate Schecter
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This book explains the turnout of Russia in the post-Soviet era. The novel relates to 1984 very well because while 1984 creates an imaginative world influenced Soviet rule, the novel explains the actual being of Russia after Soviet times. This allows the reader to compare and contrast the dystopia to the actual times after the existence of the Soviet state.
