82 “I did not like to find Gorky” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 310.

83 “Dozens of people” – Zamyatin, “Maxim Gorky”, in Soviet Heretic, p. 254. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

84 “Nothing remained” – Lyons, pp. 494–95.

85 “There isn’t a single thinking adult” – Serge, p. 312.

86 “to treat the present” – Crossman (ed.), p. 208.

87 “ringing and fizzy” – Zamyatin, We, p. 92. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

Глава 7

1 “As soon as fear” – Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, Polemic, no. 1, October 1945, CW XVII, 2668, p. 154. Оруэлл Дж. Записки о национализме / пер. В. Голышев. 2003.

2 “I am writing a little squib” – Orwell letter to Struve, CW XVI, 2421, p. 99.

3 “a genuine effort” – Orwell, “As I Pleased”, Tribune, January 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3167, p. 38.

4 “It is too like” – Ibid., p. 37.

5 “the only column ever written” – Wadhams, p. 139.

6 “a sort of totalitarian world” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, May 12, 1944, CW XVI, 2467, p. 183.

7 “The fallacy is to believe” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, April 28, 1944, CW XVI, 2460, p. 172.

8 “It is intolerable” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 267.

9 “by all odds the most debated” – Daniel Kelly, James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life (ISI Books, 2002), p. 97.

10 “very prescient” – Orwell, “The Christian Reformers”, Manchester Evening News, February 7, 1946, CW XVIII, 2877, p. 65.

11 “The theory of the managerial revolution” – James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World (John Day Company, Inc., 1941), p. 75.

12 “living in a world” – Ibid., p. 173.

13 “contempt for the common man” and “trying to spread the idea” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 14, 1944, CW XVI, 2404, p. 61.

14 “Nor have I ever stated” – James Burnham letter to Tribune, March 24, 1944, ibid., p. 62.

15 “We could all be true prophets” – Orwell reply to Burnham, ibid., p. 64.

16 “in such a way” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 41.

17 “Orwell business” – Kelly, p. 118.

18 “piece of shallow naughtiness” – Orwell, Review of The Machiavellians by James Burnham, Manchester Evening News, January 20, 1944, CW XVI, 2407, p. 74.

19 “a sort of fascinated admiration” – Orwell, “Second Thoughts on James Burnham”, Polemic, no. 3, May 1946, CW XVIII, 2989, p. 275.

20 “Burnham sees the trend” – Ibid., p. 280.

21 “three great super-States” – Orwell, “As I Please”, CW XVI, 2404, p. 61.

22 “huge, invincible, everlasting” – Orwell, “Second Thoughts on James Burnham”, CW XVIII, 2989, p. 283.

23 “primal traitor” – Orwell, CW XIX, p. 14.

24 “the longing for a just society” – Orwell, “Catastrophic Gradualism”, C. W. Review, November 1945, CW XVII, 2778, p. 344.

25 “One does not establish” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 276.

26 “No theory, no promises” – James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (Putnam & Company, Ltd., 1943), p. 182.

27 “We are interested solely in power” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 275.

28 “each is in effect” – Ibid., p. 206.

29 “If the sort of world” and “If one simply proclaims” – Orwell letter to Noel Willmett, May 18, 1944, CW XVI, 2471, p. 191.

30 “only through absolute clarity” – Burnham letter to Tribune, CW XVI, 2404, p. 62.

31 “Only if we recognize” – F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1946), p. 10.

32 “the source of the mortal danger” – Ibid., p. 84.

33 “The word truth itself ” – Hayek, p. 76.

34 “Each writer” and “a tyranny probably worse” – Review of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek and The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus, Observer, April 9, 1944, CW XVI, 2451, p. 149.

35 “completely unacceptable politically” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2437, p. 127.

36 “I am highly critical” – Crick, p. 254.

37 “I think the choice of pigs” – Ibid., p. 456.

38 “Imagine old Joe” – Inez Holden quoted in CW XVI, p. 266.

39 “that this is the right point of view” – Crick, p. 458.

40 “Unpopular ideas” – Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press”, CW XVII, 2721, p. 254.

41 “I knew that anyone” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 14, 1947, CW XIX, 3191, p. 78.

42 “Perhaps even Orwell’s morale” – Warburg, p. 47.

43 “robot bombs” – David C. Smith, p. 473.

44 Inez Holden overheard– Stefan Schimanski and Henry Treece (eds.), Leaves in the Storm: A Book of Diaries (Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1947), pp. 241–45.

45 “blitzed” – Orwell letter to T. S. Eliot, June 28, 1944, CW XVI, 2496, p. 269.

46 Orwell believed he was sterile– see Rayner Heppenstall’s account in Coppard and Crick, p. 114.

47 “I hate London” – Wadhams, p. 147.

48 “grossly wrong” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Winter 1944–45, p. 411.

49 “It seems to me” – Ibid., pp. 413–15.

50 “Every time one goes off” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 1, 1944, 2586, p. 487.

51 1943 Mass Observation report– Orwell, “Survey of ‘Civvy Street,’” Observer, June 4, 1944, CW XVI, 2484, p. 249.

52 “A harmful truth” – Michael Scammell, Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual (Faber & Faber, 2010), p. 160.

53 “Truth is what is useful” – Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, trans. Daphne Hardy (Vintage, 2005),