• Hold a stance of uncertainty in your writing!!!
• Aspects of Nineteen Eighty Four and how this has Parallels with today/fears of the time/
• Totalitarian control of Oceania. Why its important not to give a governing body much control. Could then use how this is still a fear of present-day culture as other dystopias still have these features. How the late Soviet Union turned out. Is this to many ideas??? Maybe Thought control? How thoughtcrime keeps the government in check if allowed.
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Give a clear statement to the start of each paragraph
Make all the quotes make sense in each sentece
Find some numbers for the photoediting

• The Importance/power of History(real or fake) has on the population. How Nineteen Eighty-four shows the power of misleading people with history. How altering the records give them so much power. History is a reference point to thought and morals as it allows people to compare and contrast. The warning is what happens if its removed. Could also say how History was pressed in USSR. Or the cultural effect in other Dystopias as their governments use similar tactics forbid the population of the knowledge of history

1984 is not just a piece of fiction but an instruction manual. See howthis book written in 1948 predicted the fait of History
Is this happening now such as fake news
They say that History repeats or is remembered but I think its fair to say that we are more likely to paint over it for our own comfort

The overall answer to the question: Gorge Orwell shows that his novel Nineteen eighty-four is more than a work of fiction and gives us a warning. This warning is the power a state can have over its people if it can control what is written in the History books history. We can also see this in parallels of nineteen eighty-four and the totalitarian state of the USSR
What I’m explaining to the reader:
1)What happened in history is what we are told. Therefore whatever controls history controls what we know about the past. This is important because it means the state can lie with no proof to prove them wrong. This can make you decided into thinking you’re better off.
2) We see the historical context of this in the USSR as they also altered stats and how Starlin used them as control. Real-world proof that Orwell’s warning in Nineteen eighty-four is more than fiction.
3)The party needed to remove the people who could see through there lies in order to maintain there control. Starlin did this by removing all photos and articles about former “traitors”. This is a demonstration of them using there power over history so no one could speak out and question the party, therefore, raising awareness to the unaware. (this links to the next paragraph)
4)History is a reference point to thought and morals as it allows people to compare and contrast. Without it we only see what we are shown. Show what the lack of this looks like
5) Could then show what the lack of a reference point with the USSR this also shows that nineteen eighty-four is more than just a piece of fiction and how real it became. Could also then go hint at that even us in our society has posted some of these as well. Could then go back to the lack of organization over statistics USSR was less vigorous than nineteen eighty-four eighty-four and suggest why this was one of the reasons the USSR fell from power.Could talk about how the USSR had big gaps in its history because I did find some info how they did distort there statics in a somewhat similar fashion but the way they did it was not as advanced or efficient as nineteen eighty-four as when historian look back there are significant gaps where they were deleted at a later date without being replaced etc.

Paragraph ideas How Orwell shows the power of Altering History in nineteen eighty-four.
1)What happened in history is what we are told. Therefore whatever controls history controls what we know about the past. This is important because it means the state can lie with no prof to prove them wrong.
Also, need to explain using Winston’s perspective the reality control
Quotes:
Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones
And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?
Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date 
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
History is written by Victors – Winston Churchill
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present where the party is always right. Maybe put this at the end??
2)Briefly explain the disturbing similarities between nineteen eighty-four and the USSR. USSR like Oceania altered there statistics and events in History as a way to control there people. Then explain some of the parallels that exist between 1984 and the USSR about the alteration of history and it as a power mechanism.
Quotes: Can also insert quotes in P1 that are not used
Soviet authorities may have completely “invented” statistical data potentially useful in historical research (such as economic data invented to prove the successes of the Soviet industrialization)
Data was falsified both during collection
nonetheless, the policy of not publishing—or simply not collecting—data that was deemed unsuitable for various reasons was much more common than simple falsification; hence the many gaps in Soviet statistical data
3)The party needed to remove the people who could see through there lies in order to maintain there control. Starlin did this by removing all photos and articles about former “traitors”. This is a demonstration of them using there power over history so no one could speak out and question the party, therefore, raising awareness to the unaware.
Quotes:The endless purges arrests tortures and vapourisations are not inflated for the crime but merely the wiping out of persons who might commit a crime sometime in the future
Whatever happened you vanished and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history.
the alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons[…] tolerates the present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison
Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs[…]Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favour after being usurped by one of his own deputies.
Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 
Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 
4)
Quotes:the alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons[…] tolerates the present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison
Which is why Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious.
But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party Could then go on to saying that the USSR altering History was less vigorous than nineteen eighty fours
Could talk about how the USSR had big gaps in its history because I did find some info how they did distort there statics in a somewhat similar fashion but the way they did it was not as advanced or efficient as nineteen eighty-four as when historian look back there are significant gaps where they were deleted at a later date without being replaced etc.

photo doctoring meant going back to the past to change the historical record, as when Stalin ordered Leon Trotsky, once a leading figure in the Communist Party, eliminated from all photos.

 Sometimes, Stalin inserted himself in photos at key moments in history, or had photo technicians make him look taller or more handsome.

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Paragraph 1

Relevant Quotes
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones

And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?

Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date 

History is written by the victors – Winston Churchill

Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious.

Not a thought could’ve proved or disproved

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present where the party is always right.

Whatever happened you vanished and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history. How this is similar in the USSR

The cynical movement of history was now intelligible or appeared to be so and if it was intelligible then it was alterable.

He had no freedom of choice whatsoever

The endless purges arrests tortures and vapourisations are not inflated for the crime but merely the wiping out of persons who might commit a crime sometime in the future

the alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons[…] tolerates the present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison

He must be cut off from the past[…] because it is necessary for him to believe he’s better off than his ancestors

important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the party.

The past is whatever the records and the memory agree on
and since the party is in full control of the records and in equally full control of the minds of its members it follows that the past is whatever the party chooses to make it.

Your one-time existence was denied then forgotten, You were abolished, annihilated: vapourised

Historical facts
Breif explanaition of the USSR

The Soviet Union (also known as the USSR) was the first state to adapted the Marxist views to become a communist political party.
It was originally led by Vladimir Lenin after the Russian Revolution who was a very strong believer in the Marxist ideology.
It was meant to be a classless society where everyone was equal but due to people in power it became a place where power was abused for ones gain “in the name of the state” as a totalitarian state

Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs[…]Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favour after being usurped by one of his own deputies.

Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 

Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 

photo doctoring meant going back to the past to change the historical record, as when Stalin ordered Leon Trotsky, once a leading figure in the Communist Party, eliminated from all photos.

 Sometimes, Stalin inserted himself in photos at key moments in history, or had photo technicians make him look taller or more handsome.

 Soviet authorities may have completely “invented” statistical data potentially useful in historical research (such as economic data invented to prove the successes of the Soviet industrialization

Data was falsified both during collection

nonetheless, the policy of not publishing—or simply not collecting—data that was deemed unsuitable for various reasons was much more common than simple falsification; hence the many gaps in Soviet statistical data

During 1975–1985, corruption and data fiddling became common practice among bureaucracy to report satisfied targets and quotas thus entrenching the crisis. At the same time, the effects of the central planning were progressively distorted due to the rapid growth of the second economy in the Soviet Union.^[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union

Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs[…]Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favour after being usurped by one of his own deputies.

Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 

Stalin’s censors then removed Yezhov from the photographic record, including cutting him from a photograph in which he smiled next to his former boss, 

photo doctoring meant going back to the past to change the historical record, as when Stalin ordered Leon Trotsky, once a leading figure in the Communist Party, eliminated from all photos.

 Sometimes, Stalin inserted himself in photos at key moments in history, or had photo technicians make him look taller or more handsome.

 Soviet authorities may have completely “invented” statistical data potentially useful in historical research (such as economic data invented to prove the successes of the Soviet industrialization

Data was falsified both during collection

nonetheless, the policy of not publishing—or simply not collecting—data that was deemed unsuitable for various reasons was much more common than simple falsification; hence the many gaps in Soviet statistical data

During 1975–1985, corruption and data fiddling became common practice among bureaucracy to report satisfied targets and quotas thus entrenching the crisis. At the same time, the effects of the central planning were progressively distorted due to the rapid growth of the second economy in the Soviet Union.^[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://www.jstor.org/stable/151363?seq=1 Changing the amount of deaths occuring in the soviet union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZdijf1U7OY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism