“Nineteen Eighty-Four is about power out of control” – Independent, March 1, 2003.

10 “Oceania (the US and Britain)” – Guardian, December 31, 2002.

11 “Orwellian euphemisms” – David Fricke, “Bitter Prophet”, Rolling Stone, June 26, 2003.

12 “The war is waged” – Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore, 2004).

13 “there is a war on” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 60.

14 “the reality-based community” – Ron Suskind, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush”, New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.

15 As a popular slogan put it– Daniel Kurtzman, “Learning to Love Big Brother/George W. Bush Channels George Orwell”, SFgate.com, July 28, 2002.

16 “ ‘Orwell’ has been used” – Scott Lucas, Orwell (Haus, 2003), p. 138.

17 “Shakespeare doesn’t have the moral authority” – John Rodden, Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 159.

18 “V was designed to warn” – Mihir Bhanage, “Never thought V would become a symbol of global rebellion”, TNN, March 1, 2017.

19 “Orwell imagined a huge change” – Philip Roth, “The Story Behind ‘The Plot Against America,’ ” New York Times, September 19, 2004.

20 “Any time there’s a new invention” – Author interview with Charlie Brooker for Empire, London, July 7, 2016.

21 “not the advancement of science” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 8.

22 “The Ministry didn’t do this to us” – Fahrenheit 451 (HBO, 2018).

23 “Maybe Apple’s ‘1984’ ad” and “wasn’t a rupture” – Rebecca Solnit, “Poison Apples”, Harper’s, December 2014.

24 “SECRETS ARE LIES” – Dave Eggers, The Circle (Penguin, 2014), p. 303.

25 “a new and glorious openness” – Ibid., p. 491.

26 “What happens to us” – Margaret Atwood, “When Privacy Is Theft”, New York Review of Books, November 21, 2013.

27 “warned us of the danger” – Edward Snowden, Alternative Christmas Message, Channel 4, December 25, 2013.

28 As President Obama– Press conference, California, June 7, 2013.

29 “very Orwellian” – All In With Chris Hayes, MSNBC, June 10, 2013.

30 “So, Are We Living in 1984?” – Newyorker.com, June 11, 2013.

31 “So George Orwell was wrong” – Tilman Baumgaertel, “ ‘I am a communication artist’: Interview with Nam June Paik”, Rhizome.org, February 5, 2001.

32 “completely, irredeemably, outrageously wrong” – Peter Huber, Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press, 1994), p. 235.

33 “the proles do the watching” – Ibid., p. 228.

34 “a development that promises” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin, 2003), p. xxv.

35 “We have entered the age” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. xxi.

36 “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” – Quoted in Snyder, p. 82.

37 “If the state so wishes” – Quoted in Gessen, p. 249.

38 “show business and propaganda” – Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (Faber & Faber, 2015), p. 7.

39 “the very language and categories” – Ibid., p. 77.

40 “Versionland” – Guardian, September 15, 2018.

41 “They don’t require belief ” – Anne Applebaum, “A Warning from Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come”, The Atlantic, October 2018.

42 “the hottest literary property in town” – Hollywood Reporter online, April 3, 2017.

43 “the clock is already striking thirteen” – Variety.com, March 21, 2017.

44 “It went from zero” and following quotes– Author interview with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, London, July 5, 2018.

45 “how do you begin to talk about?” – Icke and Macmillan, p. 17.

46 “How do we know the Party fell?” – Ibid., p. 95.

47 “What year is it?” – Ibid., p. 80.

48 “The people are not going to revolt” – Ibid., p. 89.

49 “I think dad would’ve been amused” – Daily Record, February 26, 2017.

50 “a continuous frenzy” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 220.

51 “something cruel” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, March 24, 1944, CW XVI, 2441, p. 133.

52 “may quit relying” – Robertson.

53 “crying hysterically” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 14.

54 “The People Believe What the Media Tells Them They Believe” – Nicholas Thompson and Issie Lapowsky, “How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America”, Wired.com, December 17, 2018.

55 “I believe the biggest risk” – Andrew Marantz, “Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet”, New Yorker, March 19, 2018.

56 “One of the biggest challenges” – My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Episode 1, Netflix, 2018.

57 “the Ministry of Truth with ML systems” – Twitter, @alexstamos, October 7, 2017.

58 The Washington Post calculated – At https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database.

59 “Truth isn’t truth!” – Meet the Press, NBC, August 19, 2018.

60 “Many dangerous ideas” – Dee Rees in Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Gollancz, 2017), p. 54.

61 “What you’re seeing” – Donald Trump speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, July 24, 2018.

62 “The party told you to reject” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 84.

63 “one is reminded of what Orwell got right” – Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America”, Newyorker.com, January 27, 2017.

64 “I am willing to believe” – “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 504. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая вой ну в Испании» / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press. 1988.

65 “If men continue to believe” – Life, July 4, 1949.

Послесловие

1 “2 + 2 = 5” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 303.

2 “I think you need that moment” – Author interview with Michael Radford.

3 “spirit of Man” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 282.

4 “power of