Masha Karp

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp—Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over a decade—explores how Orwell's work was received in Russia, when it percolated into the country even under censorship....