George Orwell and Russia

Masha Karp is a political journalist and a leading scholar on the work of George Orwell. She worked for the BBC Russian Service between 1991 and 2009, first as producer and then as Features editor. A member of the St. Petersburg Writers' Union and the Literary Translators Guild in Russia, she translated Animal Farm and its original preface ‘The Freedom of the Press’ into Russian. Her biography of Orwell, the first to be published in Russia, was a finalist for the ABS Literary Prize. She is a member of the board of the Orwell Society and the editor of its journal.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
List of Abbreviations

Part 1. ‘I Have Regarded This Regime With Plain Horror...’

1. The First Vaccination.
2. ‘We’re All Socialists Nowadays…’
3. Stalinism in Spain.
4. The Totalitarian Enemy.
5. The Russian Myth.

Part 2. ‘Don’t Let It Happen. It Depends on You.’

6. Opposing the Soviet Menace.
7. ‘As I Understand It.’
8. ‘Over the Heads of their Rulers.’
9. ‘Alone with the Forbidden Book.’
10. ‘To Arrest the Course of History.’

Bibliography
Index