In the following pages an attempt will be made to assess the impact of totalitarianism upon two sensitive observers, George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, and to reconcile the results of this assessment with current political theory. The wisdom of selecting two such writers, whose better-known works take the form of popular fiction, to provide the focus for an M.A. thesis in political science may be questioned. Their names are, however, encountered fairly often in the serious literature devoted to politics. At the same time their works of fiction, rather than the more learned books and periodicals, frequently provide the vehicle by which ideas about totalitarian systems filter through to the young or to the "man in the street". [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116733 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Wensley, Roland James. |
| Contributors | Frankel, S. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Economics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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