The society of the future depicted by the author is based on the total lack of freedom of the individual, propaganda and open violence - victorious, according to the author's bitter and formidable prediction, in the fictional state of Oceania by 1984; however, in its appearance, the realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorial regimes are easily recognizable - for, according to Orwell, all dictatorships stand against each other ... This collection also includes the famous satirical fairy tale-parable Animal Farm (1945), dedicated to the theme of the betrayed conquests of the revolution (later developed in 1984), the autobiographical novel Days in Burma (1934) - a harsh and mocking denunciation of the romantic myth of European civilization that brings light to the colonized peoples of the East - and the novel Long Live the Ficus! (1936)