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  2. Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Ministry of Peace. The Ministry of Peace (Newspeak: Minipax) serves as the war ministry of Oceania's government, and is in charge of the armed forces, mostly the navy and army. The Ministry of Peace may be the most vital organ of Oceania, seeing as the nation is supposedly in an ongoing genocidal war with either Eurasia or Eastasia and requires ...

  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation ...

  4. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism - Wikipedia

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    Efficient use of such technology to control the populace requires centralisation, and the four ministries of Oceania – the Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty – fill this need. Oligarchical collectivism: The Oceanian social-class pyramid in the year 1984. The Proles usually are not subject to propaganda.

  5. Doublethink - Wikipedia

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    Doublethink. Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. [1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy . George Orwell coined the term doublethink (as part of the fictional language of ...

  6. Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Sourcing George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984.

  7. Ministry of Peace - Wikipedia

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    Ministry of Peace may refer to: Ministry of Peace, one of the ministries in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ministry of Peace (Ethiopia), an Ethiopian government ministry overseeing intelligence services, police, immigration and peace processes.

  8. Newspeak - Wikipedia

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    In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate.To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking.

  9. Emmanuel Goldstein - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel Goldstein (John Boswall) on a telescreen during a Two Minutes Hate programme in the film Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949), by George Orwell, Emmanuel Goldstein is the principal enemy of the state of Oceania. The political propaganda of The Party portrays Goldstein as the leader of The Brotherhood, a secret, counter ...