| Publication |
2010.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
On Monday, December 31, more than a quarter of century ago, the 1984th year since the birth of a legendary prophet, who, as believed, finished his earthly ordeal on the cross in the Roman province of Judaea, came to an end. That year was very much like many others, when the superpowers were fighting the Cold War and building up nuclear arsenals, the developed countries continued to struggle with recurring economic crises, and the developing nations with never-ending ones. It was just another year when people were born and died, when they dated each other, celebrated weddings, made professional and public careers, became national leaders and made scientific discoveries. The boldest forecasts for that year did not come true: the totalitarian regime George Orwell had described in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four 35 years earlier had not conquered the globe, and the answer to Andrei Amalrik's question "Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?" was in the affirmative.
|