ABSTRACT
The totalitarian perspective considered Soviet society as composed of isolated individuals unable to articulate their interests in the face of an omnipresent state. Earlier, we noted the way that thought control has been likened to the malevolent utopia of George Orwell’s 1984. This work showed the way that manipulation of communication by a state monopoly ensured the isolation and exploitation of the individual. Such social regulation may be exercised in modern societies through control of information, suppression of facts and opinions, through their biased selection and manipulation, thus exposing the population to a constant stream of “politically approved” messages and prohibiting other views and opinions.
