1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, written in 1948 and published in 1949. The main character, Winston Smith lives in a post-civil war United Kingdom, ruled by the English Socialism (Ingsoc) Movement, which rules the country.

1984 in "Hindsight"
Mark Gordian's Watergate was favorably compared to 1984, an acknowledged classic by 1953.

1984 in The Gladiator
Despite its criticism of the excesses of communism, 1984 was still required reading for students around the globe on the pretext that it was a critique of capitalism. Most instructors, when pressed by their students, argued that "Ingsoc" was not truly socialist, but rather an exercise in "mystification". Comrade Pellagrini, for example, compared Ingsoc to the Nazi Party, which was not truly "socialist".