1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker &
Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of
totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic
socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth
and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.