June 8th

On this day - June 8th 1949 - George Orwell's "1984" was published

1984 is a novel written by George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (former Great Britain) that is a province of Oceania. Oceania controls its citizens trough surveillance, public manipulations and an its all dictated by the political system English Socialism. The Inner Party that controls the political system persecutes individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrime. The novel is categorised as political fiction and dystopian science fiction. Many of the concepts and terms used in the book has been adopted into the english language. The most known terms and concepts are "big brother", "double think", and "thought crime". The adjective Orwellian spawned from the book as a way to describe; official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state.